On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:22 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > however, i think that since these packages are depending on information > outside of the debian archive, most (if not all) should be hosted under > the contrib section (since users without internet access will encounter > reduced/limited functionality).and especially for those scripts > depending on non-free external data.
Uhm.. difficult question,.. The thing is,.. (IMHO),.. the user could still use another data source that is DFSG-compliant. Let's take the geoip example (under the assumtion the binaries and libs are DFSG compliant, but the data not). Binaries+libs could (right now) should be allowed to go into main,.. if it's possible to use "other" geoip-data (regardless of whether there's already a provider for this or not),... Only if the program data is so much tied to upstream, that there probably cannot be a free provider,.. it should be forced to non-free. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
