Le Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:30:41PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader écrivait: > Personally I strongly prefer the first option: it makes it much more > clear that the Debian distribution contains only DFSG-free software, > and that contrib and nonfree are an extra.
I am not much in favor of such things since there are a certain number of non-free software that are open source and that have only litlle problems in their license. When I started maintaining sympa (a mailing list manager), it was in non-free because of a little license problem. I was happy to be able to say to people that Debian supported their software and that it would be great if they could change the license to be DFSG-free. And that's what happened ... sympa has moved to main. So I don't see the need of rejecting non-free software out of Debian. All those software are potential DFSG-free software. I think that if we want to change anything we should split non-free in open-source and non-open-source or something like this ... Concerning your proposition, do you know that non-free & contrib will be lost on most of the mirrors ? That would not be good. Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
