On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:26:11PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Apr 20 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 13:02 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Any news about this? > > > > > > If I don't hear any reply within a week I'll NMU. > > > > I don't see anything wrong with including this. > > > > Rogerio, any opinion? > > I postponed this decision of integrating the patch because I wanted to > have something that were able to: > > * list contrib packages only; > * list non-free packages only; > * list contrib packages together with non-free. > > This is due to the very nature of contrib packages, which are Free and, > so, the person wishing to see how his/her system is configured should be > able to sort out the degrees of freedom in his/her system.
In theory, contrib packages are just free packages which due to some unfortunate circumstances have a dependency on non-free (which hopefuly can be removed in the future). "dosemu" would be a good, long-standing example. In practice, most of the top popular contrib packages are not like that. The following are just installers for non-free content: 1 msttcorefonts 12820 324 4371 423 7702 (Thijs Kinkhorst) 2 flashplugin-nonfree 8319 1807 1528 580 4404 (Bart Martens) 4 java-package 3800 471 2227 1100 2 (Debian Java Maintainers) 8 googleearth-package 2146 316 1368 462 0 (Wesley J. Landaker) 24 vmware-package 651 116 237 298 0 (Debian Vmware-package Team) and then you have others which by design cannot be conceived as something that is useful at all without something non-free attached to them: 7 nspluginwrapper 2636 1051 1248 335 2 (Rob Andrews) 10 avifile-win32-plugin 1768 28 300 23 1417 (Zdenek Kabelac) I think any ethical or legal concerns one could have with running non-free apply the same way to them. So, may I suggest that contrib is just listed unconditionally? -- Robert Millan "The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the legal evasion of the license [...]. That's the provision in section 1 regarding keys. [...] We say one thing: when you sell somebody a home... give him the keys" -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
