On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:08:50AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > How about having a new section, "open-source", or something, for the > things that fall in the category described above? (i.e. software that > is _almost_ free, but has some small limitation over some freedom)
Debian is hard pressed to consistently distinguish "free" from "not free"; it doesn't seem like a practical use of time to have a "sort of free" category in between. That said, there have been discussions about ways to break down non-free further, without necessarily creating new sections, eg. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/04/msg00066.html to allow, for example, CD vendors to more easily tell which parts of non-free they can safely distribute without satisfying extra conditions. > I know that having a new section would be a bit cumbersome, but I do > feel that the mixture of different "freeness" in non-free is a bit > unfair for those pieces of software that just fail a small point. I don't believe "forbidden to be modified in any way" to be a "small point". -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]