On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:19:17AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Matt Pavlovich wrote: > > I have personally negotiated with several hardware vendors including > > Matrox, Nvidia, and Compaq about making drivers and other support > > software 100% DFSG compliant. The success has been mixed, but in every > > case, they are beginning to "see the light". > > I'm very glad to read this.
Me too, altough i am a little dubious about this. > > If we abandon non-free, we are essentially telling Nvidia and other > > vendors: > > > > "Thank you for taking the time to integrate your software onto our > > platform, but your efforts are not good enough and we refuse to > > distribute it." > > As long as it is not Free Software I don't see a problem with this. > > We cannot include it in Debian anyway, since it is non-free. If Debian > stops distributing it but people will build ftp.non-free.org, what's > the different from the users' perspective? A new apt-line. Oh horror... Because most probably, nobody will build ftp.non-free.org. I would be happy to be proven the contrary though, and once such an alternative structure is up, and works in an acceptable way, then i would see no opposition to move non-free to it. But upto now, i have seen only empty words about it. Is the free software/open source way of doing not : show the code, and if it is good, let's use it. The same should go in this case. Friendly, Sven Luther
