I lost track of who said what... > > > And perhaps, the README.Debian should be mandatory to > > > contain a brief explanation why this package is considered > > > non-free (often it is obvious, but often it is not, > > > especially for those new to the world of free software) > > > I think this is a good idea, regardless of what we do with > > the archive... it's a -policy issue. > > I agree with this as well, however there are people like Manoj among us who > consider this giving out legal advice.
Without giving legal advice, the package was put into non-free for a reason, right? State the reason. I wouldn't put it in README.Debian. I'd put it in a mandatory new file for non-free packages called README.Why_non-free (contrib packages could have README.Why_contrib). I could then easily find all non-free packages on my system by doing $ locate README.Why_non-free Peter
