On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:21:38 -0600, Ean Rouse Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The thing that you are setting aside is that this policy precisely > mirrors the current handling of non-free and contrib on > CD. Furthermore, this approach handles the problem of dealing with > packages that do not allow redistribution. It will be up to these > secondary distributors to secure permission to distribute these > packages but we will have easy access to them for development and > bug tracking. > The alternative, apparently, will be some sort of external > organization that deals with non-free. Inevitably we will have to > come to terms with such an organization and draft policy for dealing > with it's packages and inevitably other such organizations will > start and we'll be stuck with a whole new mess of administrative > headaches. That sucks. Aren't we jumping the gun a trifle? The non free GR has a week yet to run. manoj -- Anything anybody can say about America is true. Emmett Grogan Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C