Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > [quoting Josh Triplett]
>> Package: misdn-utils >> Version: 0.0.0+cvs20041018-4 >> Severity: serious > >> misdn-utils contains a utility "loadfirm", for loading firmware onto >> ISDN devices. Unless this firmware is Free Software with source, which >> did not appear to be the case after a large amount of searching, this >> utility should not be in Debian main. In what respect is a utility to upload data (which are probably non-free) to a hardware device different from, for example, pybliographer? Pybliographer contains functionality to download data from PubMed, a free-as-in-beer literature database? What about a program that is designed to do uploads to the PDB, a free-as-in-beer scientific database of protein structures? All the data handled by these programs are non-free (because modification of scientific information is generally not acceptable, and usage is often restricted). By the way, what about ftp, a program designed to upload arbitrary data - often non-free files - to a hardware device via a protocol based on TCP/IP? Regards, Frank P.S. Shouldn't this be moved to -legal? -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
