On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:07:05PM -0800, David Schleef wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:28:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > It also doesn't say anything about whether they need non-free to be > > > hosted by debian. The relative popularity of the non-debian-hosted > > > java packages suggests not. > > > > Sure, but please tell me, if we are going to move non-free stuff to > > non-free.org, exactly how will that change anything over the current > > situation in regard with packages with problematic licences ? > > Additional developers, such as myself, would be willing to work > on non-free packages, *provided that they are outside of Debian*.
Why ? And why do you not start working and establish your own repository for distributing your packages ? And why you don't use this time to work on free packages instead ? And more to the point, what would be the benefit to debian and the free/open/whatever community, since the main point is that these non-free packages are evil ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
