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

> > Many people use Debian off of CD and those packages won't go on the CD.
> > The other distribution (contrib & non-free) are not officially supported
> > by Debian and yet there is no reason for the packages I'm describing not
> > to get official support.
> 
> Nothings officially supported by Debian, AFAIK...

Perhaps I should have said "officially distributed by Debian", instead.


> I agree that the current non-free/contrib classifications are sub-optimal
> in the extreme.
> 
> Let's change them for Debian 2.0 - ideas?

Not off hand.  I'd like to widen the main distribution a touch.


> I do have a strong interest in reforming the way we do things, because I
> want to start packaging up commercial software for profit.  I might even
> write a GPL'd license manager.
> 
> But I want to maintain the "purity" of the main distribution - that's the
> most important thing.

I don't see how the "purity" is affected by allowing software that cannot
be redistributed in a modified form.  It's still free of cost and is freely
redistributable in its original form.  Personally, I think that's sufficient.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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