On Jan 18, 2004, at 13:53, Raul Miller wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 05:31, Raul Miller wrote:
Dropping non-free would prevent Debian developers from distributing
any
non-free packages (such as GFDL).
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:44:31AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
No it wouldn't. Nothing would prevent a developer from joining the
nonfree.org project, etc.
Brushing your teeth prevents tooth decay. That doesn't mean
that you'll never get cavities if you brush your teeth.
Ah, I misunderstood what you meant by the statement. Am I correct that
you mean something more along the lines of:
Dropping non-free would prevent Debian developers from distributing
any non-free packages (such as GFDL) using Debian servers.
That isn't because a package is in Debian, it's because its in
/etc/apt/sources.list.
And adding entries to /etc/apt/sources.list grants other people
root access to your system. There's a trust issue here.
Every time Debian accepts a new maintainer, that happens too.
Also, there's the namespace issue Ted T'so mentioned.
Coordination fixes that. It'd be fairly simple for debian to host a
package name registry, for example.
