On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Moving the non-free (and contrib) part out of the main archive is a
> logical conclusion to our social contract. I don't understand why
> developers who agree to our social contract now disagree with this
> conclusion.
Well, nobody has been able to sh
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:22:45AM -0400, you wrote:
> It has a direct effect on what happens when people use FTP as the
> interface to access the packages. That isn't the only interface, but
> it is one of them (or at least it was in the past).
>
> Are we having a misunderstanding about somethin
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:22:45AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> It's true that the GNU Project could set up its own Debian web site
> with a modified version of the web pages. I don't want to do that,
> for a few reasons:
[snip]
> * It would be less effective, since every time we say "We recom
Ean R . Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that it is far more valuable if we present the oppurtunities
> to use non-free software to our users, but are certain to embed a
> message which represents our views while doing so. For instance, if
> the website package search system could of
Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader wrote:
> I already mentioned a while ago that I think that the distinction
> between main and contrib & non-free is becoming less clear, both
> to users and developers.
Apparently.
However, one thing you haven't mentioned yet, are out package-fetch
tools l
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:22:45AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> That is part of the issue: I would like to be able to refer people to
> an official Debian web site, without thus referring people to the
> non-free packages. This is not the whole of the issue because the web
> is not the only in
On Jul 08, Richard Stallman wrote:
> What I understand you want is a page, or set of pages, that just talk
> about the "main" section and don't link to anywhere that talks about
> contrib or non-free.
>
> That is part of the issue: I would like to be able to refer people to
> an offici
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Maybe the situation is different with apt. I have very little
> information about apt, little more than has appeared in the recent
> discussion. Is there a a good source of information on how
> apt interacts with the user--on what questions it asks?
My understanding was that the archive split proposal only affects the
FTP and HTTP services for downloading packages. As such, it does
nothing to promote your goal of providing an interface to only the
free packages (it only changes the URLs of the non-free ones).
It has a direct
What I understand you want is a page, or set of pages, that just talk
about the "main" section and don't link to anywhere that talks about
contrib or non-free.
That is part of the issue: I would like to be able to refer people to
an official Debian web site, without thus referring peop
Unless the user is
aware of the problems of software licensing, he will never know what
GNU/Linux is all about.
I agree with you, and I am constantly working to inform people
about this.
The best way to bring this issue to users' attention is to (1) provide
articles about the issue,
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