On Dec 11, 2007 3:21 PM, Karsten McMinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > My main basis for judging any distro is the policies it has adopted.
> >
> > Everyone makes mistakes, and well-intentioned people fix their
> > mistakes.  So if someone finds a non-free program in gNewSense, or in
> > OpenBSD, in violation of the distro's policies, that's no disaster.  I
> > trust the developers will remove it once they find out.
>
> So OpenBSD becomes non-free because we don't have a database column
> that labels stuff non-free, or a special folder for non-free packages?

It may be relevant to point out:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119731456628749&w=2
> > Having a way to sift out the non-free stuff during a search of the ports
> > tree would be useful.
>
> PERMIT_*=(not Yes)

The infrastructure is all there, it's just not emphasized.

-Nick

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