Re: README.Why_non-free (Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org )

1999-06-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jun 24, Brian May wrote: > I think dpkg (or some other package) should provide some mechanism to > automatically list all non-free and/or contrib software installed on a > system. Especially for non-free software I may have installed ages ago, > and never used since... apt-get install vrms Ch

Re: README.Why_non-free (Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org )

1999-06-24 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I lost track of who said what... Some here. I will probably only post once - I am not really intersted in this thread, but some issues have caught my eye. > Without giving legal advice, the package was put into non-free > for

README.Why_non-free (Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org )

1999-06-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I lost track of who said what... > > > And perhaps, the README.Debian should be mandatory to > > > contain a brief explanation why this package is considered > > > non-free (often it is obvious, but often it is not, > > > especially for those new to the world of free software) > > > I think this