[ Please don't Cc replies to me on public lists ] Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:41:14PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote: > > > > So IRC and AOL are free clients, non-free servers with no free > > > > alternatives, > > > > > > There are free IRC servers, e.g. the ircd package in main. > > > > Sorry, I meant ICQ not IRC. > > And yet there are two attempts out there to write a free ICQ server. The > specs are published. Nobody has released one yet but so what? > > If the protocol is published the lack of a free server AT THE MOMENT > should not penalize the software. Blah. If a program, foobar, is linked against the non-free libevil, it goes in contrib. The fact that someone is planning, writing or even thinking about writing a libgood DFSG replacement for libevil, does *not* mean we put foobar in the main. In the same way the fact that there is _currently_ no free server is all that matters. [The kind of `oh, but it'll be free RSN' attitude is exactly why we're stuck with qmail on master; needless to say, I'm less than impressed with it.] -- James
