> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:02:46AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > > I would say, without such a survey taking place, that for each package > > in non-free, there is at least one person who: > > * has stated agreement with the DSC and DFSG > > * uses the package, or at least believes others do > > * feels strongly about the package enough to package and maintain it > > Actually, that's not true: the following non-free i386 packages have > debian-qa listed as the maintainer:
OK, I was thinking of packages which were actively maintained, not orphaned. > Maybe we should move all these to project/orphaned? There doesn't seem > much point keeping non-free stuff around if no one's interested enough > to maintain it. Maybe they should be dropped altogether? After all, not only does no one seem interested in maintaining them, but their licensing status is contrary to Debian's goals. I would say that an official policy of purging non-maintained non-free packages more aggressively than non-maintained free packages would be right in line with the DSC, myself. > > Cheers, > aj -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice