Ok, I will preface this by saying I do NOT speak for the FSF. However, in my personal opinion the new documentation does in fact clarify the position of Debian but I don't think it does enough to fix the "issue" from LibrePlanet's view. Here are a couple examples of why I think that:
1) The new section 2.1.5 under the part about "Works that do not meet our free software standards" states "Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug tracking system and mailing lists)." 2) Section 2.7.1 titled "How to pick Debian packages" states you should pick your package based on "Component: main > contrib > non-free " 3) The documentation shows how to use these repositories. Now if you look at the GNU GFSD (endorsement criteria) in the Documentation section it states: 1) Additionally, it must take care not to recommend nonfree software. 2) What would be unacceptable is for the documentation to give people instructions for installing a nonfree program on the system, or mention conveniences they might gain by doing so. I think these two situations conflict. I think by saying "we support their use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages" and stating that when picking debian packages a non-free package is ok if something in main or contrib is not available/good enough would violate the documentation criteria from the GNU project. I would do what you ask any leave this bug open and tag it as "wontfix" but I'm not that skilled with the Debian bug tracker. I know how to mark it wontfix but I'm not sure how to leave it "open" at the same time. Sorry, Osamu maybe you could help out with that. Thank you for your time everyone. On 10/19/2012 09:01 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Grant: would that be enough to fix the "issue", in LibrePlanet's view? >> >> If you don't, I would understand. But in that case please leave this bug >> open and tag it as "wontfix", as the purpose of the bug reporting >> exercise is to document this kind of issues and their current state in >> Debian. -- *Grant H. *Email: sirgr...@member.fsf.org *Ask me for my GPG key *I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
