Le Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > With your argument, gcc would be in non-free right now...
This is why it has been proposed on this list that original sources containing non-free elements that are not part of the software could be allowed in main, as long as no binary package would contain them. Much of the free software development is about creating replacements of non-free component to build a free OS with free applications. But to my ears "removing files" does not sound like "creating" something. It just does not bring anything new to the world, makes nothing easier, and does not solve any problem other than cosmetical... If gcc-orig.tar.gz is not free, I still do not understand how we can say that there is more freedom after gcc-dfsg.gz is created by removing files. The starting point is the same. The way that Debian users ultimately depend on gcc-orig.tar.gz is the same. The only difference is that the non-free software transits on a personnal DD machine instead of the official debian.org machines. For sure, one could think the removals as a service to the Debian users which are not interested in the binary packages and who want to be sure that a documentations's licence is free before reading it in order to know how they can modify it, because of course, one can not blindly modify any DFSG-free document, some have some requrements which are deemed acceptabe. Also, even if the whole source would be in public domain, there are other ways in which modifications are allowed and disallowed, licences are only one stone in the intellecutal property edifice. So which value is the extra information provided by the file removals, and how many users appreciate it? I think that shipping the non-programmatic, non-modifiable works in non-free binary packages generated from source packages located in main would better deliver the information. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Current holder of the "most stupide post ever" award... for how long ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
