Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would encourage people to reread sections 4 and 5 of the social > contract. Debian *acknowledges* the existence of non-free software, > and "We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs > that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines." So are we > going to make life difficult for them by removing the suggests > information?
I *acknowledge* all kinds of things that I'm very unhappy about. I acknowledge that HIV kills lots of people. That acknowledgement is the recognition of a fact, not an approval of that fact, and certainly not a decision to help the fact continue in reality. I like the change to the policy document in question. A reasonable compromise though would be to allow Suggests of non-free packages only through a virtual package intermediary. Then people can switch to a free alternative easily as soon as one is available, instead of (continuing!) to have important parts of Debian essentially dependent on (say) netscape. Thomas
