On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Table of Contents
> > .
> > * About Free Software
> > * About the GNU project
> > * Licensing Free Software
> > * Laws
> > * Terminology and Definitions
> > * GIFs
> > * Motivation
> > * Speeches
> > * Third Party Ideas
> > * Translations of these documents
>
> Is there any chance of convincing you that if you must package these
> and place them in the archive to please limit it to the first section
> ("About Free Software") and a pointer to the rest?No, the other topics are important. 'Why does Debain have a gimp package and a gimp-non-free package?' 'Because of the problems with GIFs.' 'What problems?' 'Install gnu-philosophy and read the section on GIFs.' 'Ah, thank you, I am now enlighted' I would go so far as to suggest that over time we ought to add html links from apt to a package like gnu-philosophy. So if gnu-philosophy is installed and a user elects to install non-free software apt will suggest they read some of the gnu-philosophy articles on what is wrong with non-free software. If the user selects software that uses the GIF file format it will provide them with a link to the information about GIF in gnu-philosophy. -- I consume, therefore I am
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