Re: Question to candidates: position on non-free?
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
> > A snapshot from http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/gr_non_free_tally.txt:
> > Option 1---->: Choice 1: Cease active support of non-free [3:1 majority needed]
> > / Option 2--->: Choice 2: Re-affirm support for non-free
> > |/ Option 3-->: Choice 3: Further Discussion
> > ||/
> > V: 213 ajt Anthony Towns
> >
> > The rest of you: would you still vote like you did in 2004, if
> > the issue was brought up again?
>
> Yes. I think non-free is an excellent "slippery slope" to get people to
> make their software free -- once you start getting involved in the free
> software community, and you have the opportunity to enjoy working with a
> wide community of hackers and contributors, you want to get more involved.
> Non-free is one way of starting down that path.
I didn't mention this in my answer, but it was the main reason for my vote
in 2004. My very first package (sympa) started in non-free and was moved to main
later, when I convinced upstream that being in main was so much better
for their visibility in the free software world.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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