On Tuesday 2 March 1999, at 11 h 14, the keyboard of Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Debian is dedicated to free software and it is not in the business of > asking permission to distribute non-free apps. Excuse me? Since many non-free packages require a special clearance to have a Debian distribution at all: > Please, do not ask them for this permission *in the name of Debian*. This means we can cut non-free in two. Mirror managers will love it :-) I personnaly often asked for distribution clearances (almost all biology packages are non-free, #ifndef RMS if we want Debian to succeed in that field, non-free is an essential part of Debian #endif ). > If you want to do something for Debian with respect to pine, please ask > them to change the license instead. Don't you think we do? But the author decides. If they don't want to change the licence and if the licence requires a special permission for any distribution, yes, I ask for it, and I say I am a Debian developer and I say this is for Debian.
