On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:06:29PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:49:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:34:42PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Why contrib ? contrib is perfectly dfsg software, there is no reason not > > > to > > > distribute it the same way as main ? > > > > Because it's useless without non-free. > > Ok, i understand, but still it is DFSG compliant no ? why then > penalize it and move it away from main into some server that will > matbe not be mirrored everywhere ?
It's technically free. In practice, you can't use it without some non-free software, ie it's not free to use. You can't modify everything it does. > What is the true need to remove non-free, apart from the political > one, that is ? I don't know. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
