On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 07:19:07AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the best practice way of doing > > this. > > Best practice would be to contact the copyright holder and ask them to > convert the software to FLOSS. If they refuse to do so, then try to > find, write or convince someone to write an alternative. If all of > that fails and you still need the proprietary spftware, install it > locally and you are done.
"install it locally" is most easily done by "generate a package, install said package". Can we stop judging people by what they're trying to do, please? We're not the FSF here. Thanks. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141011175248.gb3...@grep.be