On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Also, this means that we will provide free alternatives, which is a bit > > more but also a bit less than what i propose. In my proposal the free > > alternatives could well not be packaged (yet). But on the same time, my > > proposal will not only make us provide free alternatives, but also we > > will commit to providing a current status information of what the free > > alternative are, and where they stand in functionality with regard to > > the non-free package. Other details of my proposal are maybe best left > > to technical details. > > Mine doesn't say when the free alternatives will be available. > It can't -- that wouldn't make sense.
As Debian does not develop arbitrary non-debian related software (from a hive-mind perspective, individual DDs might very well do, but we can't tell them what to do anyway), this change would alter the technical direction of the project a fair bit, IMHO. Just a thought. Michael
