On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Andrew McNabb <amcn...@mcnabbs.org> wrote:
> There have been several "scandalous" disagreements between Debian and > upstream, such as Iceweasel and OpenSSL, but for the most part it was a > bunch of little differences that bothered me (unfortunately, it's been > so long since I've used it heavily that I can't remember specific > examples other than the config file issue). > > I know the FireFox issue is because the icon and FireFox image is not free and hence Debian won't distribute it. I think OpenSSL was a licensing issue as well, that it's license did not play well with some other license. This has been the most frustrating with Debian, however it is nice to know that if I don't use contrib or non-free that I'm not violating any licenses. Those feelings only go so far as the two GUI desktops I have both have ATI graphics cards and the ATI binary fglrx installed on them. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University
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