On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:44:36PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:19:51PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > I think it has something to do with fonts being non-free. > > Thank you. > > If that is the reason why this is bad, then your statement "there are > always more non-free packages to be uploaded" isn't something that's > a flaw in our choice to distribute them. Instead, it's a criticism > of people licensing those packages in a fashion which don't meet our > guidelines.
I'm not quite sure I follow... I said that just to point out that, at any given time, non-free will contain software that someone finds vital. I merely say that because I don't think the "just re-implement everything as Free Software" argument holds any water. > Also, you seem to have overlooked one of my questions: > > > > > Perhaps a logical place to start is, effective immediately, completely > > > > and totally ban the introduction of any new package into non-free. > > > > > > And your basis for this is the document of which the DFSG is part of? My apologies; I'm not quite sure what you're trying to ask here. Can you rephrase? -- John
