On 08/12/2017 07:35 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 12, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" <wij...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Which would be a great example of software that is free interacting with >> software that is non-free. Thus the package with this as its main purpose >> should live in contrib. There's nothing wrong with that. > There is no such requirement for Debian packages and there has never > been one. > This was settled about 15 years ago, discussing ICQ clients. > Even RMS agreed.
Also nobody will stop you from writing your own server for a protocol which is implemented by a client. Also nobody stops you from changing the client code to work with a different/similar kind of server you've implemented. So it is free software, please move on. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
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