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Re: CALL FOR VOTES: First of two votes on social contract

Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:

> I still disagree with this.  I strongly believe that Debian should allow
> software that can be redistributed freely in its unmodified form into
> the main distribution.  I don't see how removing this restriction does
> anything but benefit Debian's users.

I think there's a fundamental difference between "free" software that
you can understand and build upon (even if it's with patches to the
unmodified upstream source), and the kinds you're talking about, and I
think it's very important to keep these closed programs separate from
the free ones.

We've done that by having separate contrib and non-free directories.
Previously this tended to make software in those directories
"second-class" citizens because we did not have per-release non-free
and contrib directories.  Now that we do, these packages can be
maintained consistent with each distribution just like the ones in the
main directory, and we won't end up with the "stuff in contrib and
non-free only works with unstable" situation we often had before.
That seems to solve the only real problem I saw with our handling of
the issue.

-- 
Rob


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