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.
And it generally has the 'stigma', if you will, of non-free software, even though it itself is free... Just like I guess KDE has the stigma of non-free even though it, itself is licensed under the GPL, but it still depends on the QT library version 1.x, which is non-free software. /me ducks before somebody that packages and upstream maintains a 'contrib' package bops him! --Brock --------------------- PGP key ID: FED76A3D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4 / 5 / 1999 __ _ Debian GNU R. Brock Lynn (bytopian on irc #debian) / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.debian.org/ irc.openprojects.net / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Free Software! / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Remember that's "Free" as in Freedom!, \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ Not Free as in price. Debian's 'Da Bomb!
