* Tore Anderson >> Although the installer packages themselves certainly are Free, >> I feel the social contract is being violated when I have main and >> contrib in my sources.list file, but after having completed the >> installation of a package from these sections, non-free software >> is installed on my system.
* Anthony DeRobertis > Clearly, we have not violated the Social Contract: Contrib does not, > per the social contract, need to follow the DFSG (policy imposes > greater requirements, which is fine). Oh, er, yes. Policy is indeed what I was thinking about. > I think it is reasonable to require that installer packages inform the > user they are about to install non-free software and give the user an > opportunity to review the license of that software before proceeding, > though. At the very least. Well, anyway I see that most people seem to disagree that it's a dubious use of contrib, so I'll probably just forget about submitting any bugs on the installer packages. -- Tore Anderson