Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > Em Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:48:46 +0200, Pierre Machard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:23:40PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > [...] > > > So I do not agree that "Contrib is a ok place for installers". While > > > basically these installer are free software, it's a little bit > > > hypocritical to claim that these package contains free software. > > > > From the policy : > [...] > > In other words you do not agree with the Debian policy. It's quite > > amazing since according to : > > While I agree with you that contrib is a good place for installers, > that is not a good reasoning. We did agree to respect the policy, > and to agree with it on our packaging work, but it does not mean > it is a holy book we cannot think about changing.
Exactly. I also contribute to a GNU project and follow every rules of GNU when doing it. It does not mean that I agree with every words of RMS, it just mean that I appreciate the GNU project a lot and when I contribute to it, I accept the rules of the GNU project, even the rules that I appreciate less. The same goes for Debian. When doing something for Debian, I follow the Debian policy. But I still keep my own judgment and keep the right to express an opinion which may not be conform the policy. I understand why these installers are in contrib (I said it in my previous mail, basically they go in contrib as free software dependant on non-free) according to the policy. If I was about to add such package in Debian, I would add it, conform to the policy, in contrib. But now we're discussing about it and I express my opinion: since these packages in their postinst script install non-free stuff, I think that even if there's no non-free stuff within the packages themselves, the result of the installation of these packages (and not their dependancies!) is to get non-free stuff. And so, it leads me to the conclusion that, whatever the fact that the non-free part is downloaded at the same time than the debian package or not, this package itself contains non-free stuff. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english