On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:30:45PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The prerequisites for inclusion in main should merely be a reasonable belief > > that the program is useful without recourse to anything non-free, > > I disagree. I think an MP3 player should be allowed into main without > us trying to pretend that it's only there for playing DFSG-free MP3s.
I'm not pretending that the programs we distribute will only ever be used for manipulating DFSG-free data. Whether it is or it isn't is entirely not our concern, and that is one of our bases of freedom. However, as I have previously mentioned, the Social Contract states that we will never make the system require the use of anything non-free. I believe that makes any program which only works with non-free data useless in a Debian-main context. - Matt