Le Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:35:15PM -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > A lot of users appreciate our promise to read all the licenses so they > don't have to.
> as I explain further, suddenly we have a user who notices, for the > first time, that the RFC (or Sun Java, or whatever) actually _does_ > restrict their rights in a way they might actually care about. Dear Peter, I fully agree with what you write. Indeed what I support is not to ignore the RFC or other similarly non-free, non-programmatic files, but to document them in the copyright file, tolerate them in the source package, exlude them from the binary packages in main, and ship them in non-free if they are non-redundant and provide an added value. I think that it gives a simpler and stronger message. As I tried to explain in my previous mail, basing Debian on expurged tarballs gives a fictionnal feeling of freedom, since they are not real forks and Debian still depends on its developpers downloading non-free original upstream works for each update. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
