On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:53:56AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:59:07PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Foo Emulator: used for development of a free OS for platform Foo (I do > > > > > Foo Frontend: used with development versions of free alternatives to > > > > > Foo Client: used to aid development of a free server for Foo (some are > > > > Then all this stuff should be in main. (I think it should be anyway.) > > Foo Emulator would be in main if it didn't require non-free Foo ROMs to > make it work at all.
It doesn't. The free OS that I mentioned is compiled to a ROM image to replace the normal ones. People still objected to the emulator going into main. [[And why should this depend on the existence of an alternative ROM image (shades of readline under GPL here)?]] > Foo Frontend ... Well, how does a Tk frontend for xanim help you make a > free replacement for xanim? How does a PGP shell help you develop a free > replacement for PGP? I said "used with" in that case. However, someone has pointed out that the reason mailcrypt et al are in contrib is due to a non-us rather than a non-free depependency! This is a bit bizarre. IMHO they should just be in main (or perhaps non-us/main if there is no pgp-us). As far as xanim is concerned, my original (fairly weak) statement stands. Giuliano.
