Am Donnerstag, den 10.08.2017, 12:45 +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern: > The only crucial sentence might be this one from ยง2.2.2 in the > policy: > > "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to > work with the Debian distribution, but which require software outside > of > the distribution to either build or function." > > The policy isn't something we voted upon. Do people really understand > that this means tools calling an API on the Internet would need to be > in > contrib? I don't think I agree with this non-free'ization of Debian. > Stuff like licq never belonged into contrib either, despite its main > purpose back then being to connect to the ICQ (and MSN?) services.
> Someone wrote a Free client implementation, hence we should offer it > to > our users. Maybe another data point from the game-team which I think is relevant: When a game-engine is free, but requires to have non-free data to be usable, it has to go into contrib. If there is free data available, even it is only a (engine) demo, it can go to main. [1] > I could pull other strawmans like "what about tools that > connect to the telephone network, which is non-free?". Where would we > even draw that line? -- tobi [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Policy#guidelines_for_packaging_game_ engines > Kind regards > Philipp Kern >
