On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:10:39PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> writes: > > > Actually, only Debian "main" is intended to be 100% dfsg-free > > software. > > Intended by who? Not by someone who agrees with the Debian project's > social contract: > > 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software > We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free > software.
Just as emacs has violated the GPL at times[1], mistakes get made. non-free in Debian is a serious, serious problem, and will result in the package getting either repacked (dfsg repack) or removed. Non-free software can not exist in Debian, in case anyone misread Mike's comments. > > > The entire composition of Debian "the system" is up to individual > > users/developers/volunteers and how they choose to compose their > > particular parts of the whole. > > Yes, what people install additional to Debian is up to them. But that > doesn't mean the result is “Debian the system” any more. > > -- > \ “This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending | > `\ the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the | > _o__) hopes of its children.” —Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-04-16 | > Ben Finney > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/142405 -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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