On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:04:10PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote: > I propose that we do not sponsor people for non-free packages. > People that we want to join us and seeking sponsors for > non-free package are showing that they do not understand > our philosophy and dedication to Free Software.
It's only fair to suggest that you may wish to start with the membership we already have. The last time this particular part of our philosophy was addressed, there was a significant group of people voicing the opinion that Debian needed its non-free software. Ahh, but Debian doesn't have non-free software! (wink, wink..) As much as I'd love to see an infusion of new blood into the project which would just as soon be rid of non-free in Debian, it's unreasonable to have a nontechnical barrier to entry which doesn't apply to existing members. The additional technical hurdles make sense given that new maintainers do tend to make mistakes. It's also true that packaging software for Debian has become significantly more complex with the introduction of things like source-deps and debconf and there are more places for a newbie to make those mistakes. But this isn't a technical hurdle. It's a political one designed to help maintain the facade that the stuff in non-free is not in fact part of Debian. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't feed the sigs The purpose of having mailing lists rather than having newsgroups is to place a barrier to entry which protects the lists and their users from invasion by the general uneducated hordes. -- Ian Jackson
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