On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:21:57PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:42:37PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > You wrote:
> >
> > > Programs whose authors encourage the user to make donations are fine
> > > for the main distribution, provided that the authors do not claim that
> > > not donating is immoral, unethical, illegal or something similar;
> > > otherwise they must go in contrib (or non-free, if even distribution
> > > is restricted by such statements).
> > >
> > > They must go in non-free anyway, since we changed the definition of
> > > contrib.
> >
> > I don't understand this paragraph really. Are we saying that such
> > packages are not DFSG-free, in which case they should go in non-free,
>
> No, we're saying such packages are DFSG-free and should be in main: my
> comment was addressed to the last bit of the paragraph I was quoting, the
> "otherwise..." clause. Programs that _require_ a donation are non-free.
So are people happy with changing the wording of the last two lines to
read:
otherwise they must go in non-free.
Julian
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