On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:08:28PM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:42:26PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > What strikes me as ironic, with these proposals, is that we ran into > > something like this problem back in the 90s, back during the initial > > adoption of the DFSG, and we had to solve that problem then: > > we created the non-free and contrib sections. > > > > For some reason, these sections are no longer seen as adequate. > > > > As I understand it, one aspect of the problem is that CD/DVD > > distributors do not distribute these sections -- mostly because we > > have not made it easy for them to do so legally. > > > > Perhaps we should start addressing the CD distributor problem (perhaps > > tagging CD distributable software, and providing a simple mechanism to > > pull only CD distributable software for > > contrib/non-free). > > It will not work for firmware, be could be done for GFDL documentations:
Could you perhaps give us some insight as to why it will not work for firmwares ? > We could provided a simple mechanism to build a CD containing all the > GFDL packages in non-free, which will then be only covered by the > GFDL so it will be easy for CD distributors to decide whether they can/want > to distribute it. There are loads of other non-free-but-distributable packages out there, including some non-GFDL documentation, and sourceless stuff, and other cases. I suppose that the non-free unicorn ADSL modem driver would be very usefull to have at installation time. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
