Re: debianHELP.org announcing commercial software?

2002-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
>Good point. But if we want to compare debianhelp.org "announcing" a > non-free package and debian.org "distributing" a non-free package, it > doesn't make much sense. To me there's a clear distinction on which one > does more potential damage to free software. Then you should have an ann

Re: debianHELP.org announcing commercial software?

2002-11-09 Thread Randy Edwards
Our position is outlined in our social contract. Yes, I've read that a few times... :-) Personally, I don't think we should spread the support of non-free. We abide by our social contract to allow it a place in our archive, and I think that's far enough My own feelings is that it goes

Re: debianHELP.org announcing commercial software?

2002-11-05 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 05, Ben Collins wrote: > IOW, I think that debianHELP.org announcing non-free software is not a > good idea. Be sure to not confuse commercial with non-free. Qt is > commericial, but is still free. My recommendation would be to allow it but make it so people can filter it out if they want t

Re: debianHELP.org announcing commercial software?

2002-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
>To get feedback, I'm running a poll on debianHELP. Debian.Org's >position on non-free software is pretty clear (in spite of the fact that > non-free software is still distributed by Debian), but I wanted to solicit If Debian's position on non-free software was clear to you, you would

debianHELP.org announcing commercial software?

2002-11-05 Thread Randy Edwards
An interesting topic came up on the debianHELP site (see ). It raises the free/non-free question and a couple of users have commented that debianHELP shouldn't announce non-free soft