[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> No, it's a very different case since here we have a large free >> self-contained free software program which works without any non-free >> dependencies, whose package also contains an additional little script >> which downloads and copies to an external device some file. >> There is clearly no dependency here. >a large number of printers will not work without getweb, which is a part >of the foo2zjs package. hence, there is significant loss of >functionality without getweb and the external files that it downloads. You are missing the point: some printers may or may not work, but the program itself still has the same capabilities and is not influenced by what getweb does.
>and since getweb depends on non-free software and is a part of the >package, foo2zjs as a whole is considered to depend on non-free software. No. getweb *downloads* and copies some non-free software, it does not depend on it. >this could easily be remedied by splitting getweb out of foo2zjs. Or not, since there is no reason to do it. >if a package has a bit non-free documentation in it, then the entire >package cannot be in main. the conclusion should be the same here. >there is certainly a dependency here as argued above. There is no dependency and we are talking about an installer (which is contrib material, not non-free material) which is only an additional component of the whole package. It is a completely different case. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
