Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:25:21PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > > There is NOTHING on your system that is non-free which icq depends on to > > > run, is there? > > > > This is the point under contention. Does it matter whether a required > > non-free component is on your system? If a package *requires* a > > non-free server, should that package go in contrib? (My personal > > feeling is yes, but I don't feel strongly about it.) > > No software which connects over tcp requires any software at the other > end.
It doesn't what's it connecting to? Direct Brain Interface Hardware (TM)? > If you have documentation of the protocol used you don't require any ^^ > particular server, free of not. This has been pointed out. a) that's a big `If' b) at some stage there was documentation for motif, but no lesstif. Would motif linked programs have been suitable for main because it was a documented protocol which one could replace? -- James
