On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:32:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I think that's rediculous. Education is not a smokescreen, and you can't > > > > argue that there will never be free data available for quake2 (or know > > > > for sure that there isn't already). > > It doesn't matter whether there will be free date, or even whether there > *is* free data: it matters whether it's packaged for Debian. > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:01:02AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Ok, I'm going to upload libgaming. Nothing yet has been created for it, > > but it is possible. Should I upload it to contrib? > > If nothing's been created for it, why would you want to upload it to the > distribution at all? > > The "Deb" in Debian does stand for "Deborah", not "Debating Society", > right?
And I thought Debian stood for promoting free software creation. Putting quake2 in contrib and tacking on that "purchase the non-free datafiles" message is just crap. Ben -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
