[Edits headers before editing reply to make sure he remembers to do so] On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:02:08PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > This is the point under contention. Does it matter whether a required > > > non-free component is on your system? If a package *requires* a > > > non-free server, should that package go in contrib? (My personal > > > feeling is yes, but I don't feel strongly about it.) > > > > No software which connects over tcp requires any software at the other > > end. > > It doesn't what's it connecting to? Direct Brain Interface Hardware (TM)?
s/any software/any particular software/
> > If you have documentation of the protocol used you don't require any
> ^^
> > particular server, free of not. This has been pointed out.
>
> a) that's a big `If'
Obviously there's some documentation at least. I can't say irc is all
that terribly well documented either (or that people follow the standards
outlined in the documentation for that matter..)
I don't think we have the right to start judging that either.
> b) at some stage there was documentation for motif, but no lesstif.
> Would motif linked programs have been suitable for main because it
> was a documented protocol which one could replace?
No, linking isn't the same as connecting to a server IMO.
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