On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:23:58PM -0700, James A. Treacy wrote: > > The main reason I'm complaining is that the user which visits that page does > > not need to know the intricate details of our developmental process. Trying > > to push all that (rather abstract) information to them might confuse and/or > > bore them. > > > > (Hey, there's something wrong with this picture -- I'm the one who is > > usually being accused of making the web pages not too user-friendly! ;) > > I agree that the pages should be user friendly. Sometimes that means leaving > out details - which is different from having misleading info. > > Simply because I don't want to miss out on the fun of being flamed, I have > included a diff with my suggested changes to the latest version in CVS
Looks great, please commit it... > --- packages.wml.orig Wed Apr 4 16:25:15 2001 > +++ packages.wml Wed Apr 4 16:25:34 2001 > @@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ > Software Guidelines</A>, assuring free use and redistribution of the > packages and their complete source code. > > - <P>There are also some additions to the <EM>main</EM> distribution, that > - have certain restrictions not allowing them to be part of a 100% free > - software distribution like Debian GNU/Linux. Still, they are provided by > - Debian as a service to our users, and they include: > + <P>As a service to our users, we provide packages in seperate sections > that can not > + be included in the <EM>main</EM> distribution due to a restrictive > + license. They include: > <BLOCKQUOTE><DL> > <DT><EM>Contrib</EM></DT> > <DD>Packages in this area are free themselves but depend on other But perhaps change s/a restrictive license/various legal restrictions/ because a package can be in another section because of a patent. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
