-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > There's nothing in the social contract that compels anyone to include > any specific software in Debian if they are disinclined to do so. The > package in question has as its sole purpose the promotion of non-free > software. Many people are disinclined to spend effort on promoting > non-free software, and your cries will not gain their support.
Hmm. Given that I've just seen pretty much exactly the same conversation on -devel about a week ago, and that this keeps popping up, it's obvious that there *is* demand for working non-free software on Debian. (I use it myself.) Also given that given that there are a number of DDs who *do* want to sponsor non-free (because otherwise there wouldn't be such a thing...), might I suggest that it might be worthwhile setting up a -nonfree mailing list? This ought to allow the relatively small number of nonfree developers to meet each other more easily, while also keeping such things out of -mentors and -devel, an improvement to everybody. - -- ┌── dg@cowlark.com ─── http://www.cowlark.com ─────────────────── │ │ "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language in │ which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- Flon's Axiom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG3R5wf9E0noFvlzgRAgFgAKDd+f2/0vN600Zatk49hEIA3Y/CDwCfYFqZ Oc4NDyB0uajOKYwUOtFkzXs= =bLPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----