On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:27:39PM +1300, Paul William wrote:
> >We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that
> >don't
> >conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created "contrib"
> >and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software. The software in
> >these directories is not part of the Debian system, although it has been
> >configured for use with Debian. ....
>
> I meant in main.
Interesting that you snipped this, which I wrote:
> >Anything in non-free? (ok, the Social Contract stipulates that non-free and
> >contrib are not part of Debian, but that's a minor point for serious
> >purists.)
> IIRC. now you are spreading FUD. Does a java compiler require the java
> runtime? IIRC. Dont think so. Heck, you could write a bytecode generator
> in any language under the sun.
No, not FUD at all. Pedantism. Perhaps you should have been more careful,
and worded your example about java better. Something that would have been
better to choose, would be some binary libraries or modules, such as the
NVidia ones.
Mike.
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