On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Chris Lawrence wrote:
[snip]
> Anyway, perhaps we need to look at providing a section between
> "contrib" and "non-free" that allows for software that is
> redistributable without restrictions but is not DFSG-free (i.e. stuff
> that people can stick on CD-ROMs without wandering through every
> copyright file in non-free), or at least a convention for tagging
> non-free packages as CD-ROMable. This would be consistent with our
> goal of making it "easy for people to produce CD-ROMs of our system
> without violating any licenses, import/export restrictions, or any
> other laws" (per Policy) and would not compromise the ideological
> purity of the DFSG.
This has been discussed some time ago when we decided to make "contrib"
packages also DFSG free.
We didn't choose this option (to split non-free into
non-free-but-freely-dist and really-non-free-stuff) since (a) we don't
want to give guidelines for non-DFSG software (this would be against our
project goals) and (b) what's `freely-dist' differs very much from vendor
to vendor (depending on how much they charge, what else is on the CD,
etc.).
Sorry, but I think the amiwm package has to go into "non-free" for now.
Thanks,
Chris
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