As far as I know, there is no restriction on moving this package to non-free right now. It clearly does not meet the criteria for being in main:
* grip requires GitHub's proprietary API to do anything useful * without the proprietary service, grip is useless Either non-free or contrib works for this, in my opinion. I don't really care which, just not main. About the description, for those who are not web programmers, the normal assumption is that "GitHub markdown API" would be provided by software on my machine. How about this for the description: Grip is a command-line server application written in Python that uses GitHub.com to render a local Markdown files. It uploads the Markdown files to the proprietary GitHub Markdown API, and then serves up the resulting HTML via a local webserver. The styles come directly from GitHub, so you'll know exactly how it will appear. Changes you make to the Readme will be instantly reflected in the browser without requiring a page refresh.