Hello Dominik,
On Sun 04 Apr 2021 at 11:17AM +02, Dominik George wrote:
> That surprised me. If a package is free software, in ful laccordance
> with the DFSG, why is it put into contrib?
Just to note that anything in contrib has to be fully free and
DFSG-compliant, so the issue is not about fre
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 07:57:10AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
wrote:
>
> another way to answer the question is to find some software similar to the one
> that you want to package and see if that software is in Debian main or in
> contrib. If it is in main, then at least one DD and FT
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 12:57 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
wrote:
> Maybe the comparison to winetricks is not very fitting because I think
> winetricks can *only* download non-free software while lutris can also
> download
> games that their developers distribute under a DFSG license?
(Ups
Quoting Simon McVittie (2021-04-04 13:55:21)
> On Sun, 04 Apr 2021 at 13:23:14 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > On 16093 March 1977, Dominik George wrote:
> > > That surprised me. If a package is free software, in ful laccordance
> > > with the DFSG, why is it put into contrib?
> >
> > There is, as
On Sun, 2021-04-04 at 11:30 +0200, Stephan Lachnit wrote:
> For winetricks it is a bit more tricky as it can download non-free
> dlls afaik.
How does this compare for instance to Firefox, which can/will download
non-free binaries for DRM?
Regards
Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2021-04-04 12:42:47)
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:17:01AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> > Which one do we. as a community, prefer?
> The project usually seems to prefer "free software" over "our users".
No, the project prefer what is both free software and serves our
On Sun, 04 Apr 2021 at 13:23:14 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 16093 March 1977, Dominik George wrote:
> > That surprised me. If a package is free software, in ful laccordance
> > with the DFSG, why is it put into contrib?
>
> There is, as usual, no clear answer.
>
> The policy for main is clea
On 16093 March 1977, Dominik George wrote:
That surprised me. If a package is free software, in ful laccordance
with the DFSG, why is it put into contrib? I can see where this note
comes from — the package maintainer does not want to help people
install non-free software, a point of view that is
On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 11:17:01AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> a) They try Debian, and find out they have to learn how the different
> package areas work, reconfigure their package sources
(they would need that anyway as they need firmware and, very probable,
nvidia-driver)
> Which one do
Hi Doinik,
I'm the Lutris Maintainer for Debian, and I completely agree with you.
However, at least for Lutris, there is no choice since we recommend
winetricks. Thus, I simply copied the copyright comment from
winetricks.
For winetricks it is a bit more tricky as it can download non-free
dlls af
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