Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:02, Josh Triplett wrote: >> >> > While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package >> > Depend on some piece of Free data for it to operate on, I do believe >> > that if there is _no_ Free data for the package to run with, and that >> > data is required in order to operate, then the package must go in >> > contrib until at least one free piece of data is available. >> >> I just don't think that software Depends: on the data it manipulates the >> way that it Depends: on, say, libraries or other programs. >> >> It also seems terribly unhackerly. I mean, heck: if I'd like to create >> some Free Gameboy ROMs, I'd want to do it on a Free operating system. >> >> Lastly, I guess there's just something really violating about thinking >> that Debian is judging the data I have, or could have, on my hard drive. >> So I'm not working with Free data. So what? Mind your own beeswax, >> Debian. > > This was all discussed to death when Quake 2 was GPL'd [1]. The main > problem I see is that if you accept these arguments, contrib becomes > empty. Whether you like it or not, there is a value judgement going > on with contrib vs. main. If something is not "useful" enough with > non-free bits, then it goes into contrib.
Huh? Contrib would still have Java applications that require the non-free jre, stuff that build-depends on non-free software, those installer packages, etc... -- You win again, gravity!
