On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Chris Carr wrote: > > If the new winetricks package were to be called wine-nonfree, that would > > lay the foundations for later efforts ... > > Except that it would be a serious misnomer. > > First, many of the packages there are free software. 29 out of 120, by my > count. > > Then, in the usual Debian parlance, "nonfree" usually suggests proprietary > gratis distributable things. Winetricks includes a mix of distributable, > non-distributable and even non-gratis software (the last cathegory requires > that you have a valid Windows license). That is not true. Winetricks is itself entirely free, and is just a simple script. It then downloads the other materials from public web sites, but by no measure can those other materials be regarded as part of wine-tricks - Microsoft would have something to say about that if it were claimed that they were part.
David > > In the past, there was opposition to shipping random free software for > Windows inside Debian, for good reasons. And since most of the rest in > undistributable, packaging winetrick as a big installer (in main!) is > probably the best idea. > > > Meow, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009071013.15478.david.goodeno...@btconnect.com