On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:53:32AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > >"contrib" exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, "we will never > >make the system depend on an item of non-free software". Moving something > >from contrib to main that does, in fact, depend on such an item is a pretty > >basic violation of Debian's principles. > > It's not clear to me that the system depends on a non-free component if > a single BLOB-requiring driver fails to install because the BLOB is not > present, leaving the overall system working except that it can't drive > one piece of hardware. The system depends on a non-free component if the > whole system won't work without it.
Huh? So you're claiming that it's OK for software in main to depend on non-free libraries, and not work at all without them, as long as the system as a whole continues to work and the packaged data itself is Free; and that contrib has no basis in the SC or DFSG at all? -- Glenn Maynard
