"Poussa Sakari (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <[email protected]> writes:

> Reason for closed/binary components ? There are components like 3D graphics 
> acceleration libs which are closed. As said, this is something that we can 
> not 
> do anything in the short term. This is the case also in N900 maemo repos. If 
> developers wants to use those components they should be available in the 
> repos, 
> right ?

I think it is important that all the non-free packages are very clearly
optional, and very clearly separable from the free ones.

I.e., it must be possible to get MeeGo running on the reference
platforms without any non-free package.  The result might not perform
optimally, and not all hardware might be accessible, but it must boot to
the UI and be generally useful.

In other words, it should be possible to remove all non-free packages
from MeeGo without losing anything essential, and we should consider
actually doing this.

If the non-free packages are essential and can not be removed, MeeGo
would be a farce, in my opinion.
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