On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:54:07AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Craig Sanders dijo [Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:43:11AM +1100]: > > > Maybe as a first measure, we could mass-file wishlist bugs against > > > non-free > > > packages, asking the maintainer to put a small paragraph into the > > > copyright > > > file with an explanation as to why this is in non-free? > > > > good idea. perhaps something easily parsable like: > > > > Non-DFSG: 1, 3, 5 > > > > to indicate clauses 1, 3, and 5 of the DFSG. > > I would advocate making this more prominent - This proposal is quite > good, and it would add expresiveness to tools such as vrms... But I > would like to see something like > /usr/share/doc/package/why_is_nonfree, stating the reason (a couple of > lines at least) so that our users have a better chance of seeing and > understanding it. > > It has been suggested to put this in README.Debian - It would fit > there, yes... But I'd rather see it more prominent.
Andrew Suffield pointed out in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> that one can just put the reason into /usr/share/vrms/reasons/$package, vrms already supports this. It wouldn't hurt to duplicate the reason somewhere in /usr/share/doc/$package though, I guess. Nobody objected to mass-bug-filing for adding those reasons there, so I'll advance on this in the next couple of days. Michael
