On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:58:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:05:52PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > I'm just telling that asking for a sponsor for non-free > > packages is not helping the project. > > If the package is useful it is helping the users. > > > I wonder if such people really know that Debian is not only about > > technique but also philosophy. It is the role of sponsors to check > > that. > > And banning non-free sponsored packages will ensure that sponsors check > that the newbie maintainer is philosophically in line with Debian? > That's not non sequitur but it ain't too far off either :)
Well, putting two and two together, I think the original post was actually regarding a proposed package that allowed source to be distributed with debian only, which would still put it in non-free, but at least the upstream authors are prepared to negotiate their code's liberty. So all may not be as bad as it sounds. Pete
