On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:44:53PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > It can be applied to just about anything in contrib: "an application that is > nonfunctional without a non-free library doesn't require it, it's just not > very useful without it"; "a Java application doesn't require a JRE, it's > just not very useful without one".
The distinction lies somewhere in the region of intended usage. A DVD player? That's fine, we don't need to ship a dvd-video image - people are going to play all kinds of stuff, some of which will be their own creation and some of which will be free. An application where everybody is going to install a non-free library before they run it? That's obviously Marco d'Itri again. Please don't fall prey to his rules-lawyering, you really *can't* reduce this stuff to a set of programmatic rules. You do have to exercise judgement in good faith (neither blindly following rules nor attempting to abuse them). If you think about "substantial non-infringing usage" then you're not too far from the mark. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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