On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:44:25PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 15:27 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit : > > > How about ???Software that is not executed on the host CPU??? ? That can > > > include e.g. non-free documentation, which clearly doesn???t belong in the > > > same place than nVidia binary drivers. > > > > While I think that non-dfsg-free documentation also merits to be split > > off from non-free, I don't think we should generalize this too much; > > e.g. clearly non-free copyrighted artwork or data should probably stay > > in non-free. > > Why? In essence, it is very similar to a firmware. It can also be > necessary (e.g. for game data) to make free software work, in a similar > way to the kernel with firmware.
While that might be true technically, I don't think you can compare it from a social POV. Firmware is (when it applies) (mostly) essential to make your hardware run; documentation is important to understand and learn code and/or important system programs. Game data is not essential at all in the wider scope of a Free Operating System. > And I know that installing it is not going to blow away my system with > untrusted code. That's certainly a requirement, but not the only one I would like to have. In the end, I guess that most games depend on their game data, so the question boils down to whether this new section is "part of Debian" and thus whether a depends-on relationship on this new section is allowed or not. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
