On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:19:51PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what were your reasons for supporting a non-free > > package? > > To be completely honest, I do not recall. I think I found it useful for > a little while, but lost interest in it almost immediately afterwards. > > There were more than one package, actually. One was whirlgif, which at > the time was the only tool to make animated GIFs. I don't recall its > history very well, but I think it started out in main but then moved to > non-free when the whole Unisys patent thing came up. The other was > bulkmail, but again, I don't remember much about it. Both have far > better alternatives these days.
Oh. You used to need stuff from non-free in the past, and then it was ok to have non-free, but now that you have no use for it, it should be removed, despite maybe other people still needing it ? Friendly, Sven Luther
