On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:23:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And more to the point, what would be the benefit to debian and the > > free/open/whatever community, since the main point is that these > > non-free packages are evil ? > > No, the main point is that non-free software is not part of Debian, > and Debian's job isn't to support it. Some may think that they are > evil; others may think that they are simply irrelevant to Debian, and > best removed.
One of the main argument, used by Branden if i remember well, was that removing non-free from the debian infrastructure would force authors of non-free packages to revise their licence, or users to consider alternatives. Exactly in what way does this still be true if there is a an alternative non-free.org archive ? Friendly, Sven Luther
