On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:48:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > In linux.debian.legal, Niklas Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now I'm asking for suggestions for replacements and comments on whether > > some packages should be either moved to main or removed completely > > because of the license or what kind of changes to the license we could > > suggest to upstream. > > > The page is at http://www.iki.fi/nvainio/debian/non-free.html > > [angband, zangband] > The Angband team is actively attempting to relicense the software under > the GPL and all recent core contributors have already agreed. The problem > at present, as I understand it, is that no one has been able to get in > touch with one remaining original author, so completing the relicensing > may require replacing fairly large chunks of the core code.
Cool. > [doc-rfc-*] > The RFC packages could be replaced for most people by an installer that > downloads the RFCs from an archive or mirror if they want a local copy. Installers are evil and hypocrit. If you are not going to distribute the package because it is non-free, we should also not distribute the installer. Friendly, Sven Luther