On 2/16/06, Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:13:01PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > I think that it's safe to say that at the time the DFSG was drafted > > it was felt if the patch clause wasn't included in the DFSG that > > some software important to Debian would have been treated as > > non-free. I think it's also safe to say that we thought that allowing > > that software into Debian was a better idea than excluding it. > > According to Branden, it was an attempt to get Qmail into Debian, and > that's treated as non-free anyway.
I disagree: At the time the DFSG was being drafted, it wasn't clear how qmail would be distributed. -- Raul
