On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:43:22PM +0100, Sergey Spiridonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Producing and distributing non-free is ethical. If I produce a package > with closed source and distribute it, it is ethical, since it help > people to solve their tasks. It compels me to non-ethical action when > someone, for example, will request sources from me.
Suppose you package foo-nonfree, a package whose source code is not available. Some time later, a user requests the sources from you. You reply, "I'm sorry, I don't have the source code and so I can't give it to you." How is this worse than your proposed response, when a user requests a package for foo-nonfree, of "I'm sorry, I don't have the program and so I can't give it to you."? (leaving aside the fact that source code for most of non-free is available) Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | I haven't lost my mind, | | I know exactly where I left it. | \------------- Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org -- Because. ------------/
