The Hickeys <[email protected]> writes: > How come the GNU/Linux site does not have Debian on its free > distribution list, and makes no mention of Debian at all it seems? Is > this because Debian does not adhere to the GNU/Linux "Free Software > Definition"?
There have been a variety of different reasons over the years, but the primary ones, the ones that are unlikely to change, and the reasons why the Debian listing was removed in the first place as I understand it are: * Debian supports the non-free archive section even though it isn't part of Debian proper and provides information about it and links to it. * Debian does not follow the level of discipline that the FSF wants to follow about never linking to non-free software or non-free software companies. The project "promotes" such software in some ways by the criteria used by the FSF. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
