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Re: contrib/non-free policy

Hi,
>>"Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@is5.nyu.edu> writes:

Alex> This is bumerang (sorry, I don't have correct spelling handy)
Alex> situation. You try to hit copyright holders and developers but
Alex> finally the Debian itself is hit by the lowering it's rating on
Alex> the CD market.

	Well, is it a goal to gather maximal market share? I think
 not. I think that making a statement about free software is better
 than the market share (you can get a lot of companies to buy in just
 by making something a commercial product -- free===unsupported in the
 business world)

Alex> Not saying is that it is immoral to put preassure on
Alex> developers. They already made their "creatures" available
Alex> publically and just try to have some control over them to
Alex> prevent someone's messing with their code. And you are trying to
Alex> say "no boys, you aren't good enough yet".

	No, we are sayin we have a policy about what we allow on our
 CD's, and sorry, boys (girls?), your licence does not pass. No value
 judgement about the quality of the effort is stated or implied.

Alex> Not to mention that leaving software out of Debian CD is no
Alex> preassure.

	The efficacy of our form of promotion of free software is a
 separate issue.


	manoj
-- 
 Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg,
 sem and shm calls), so I added them.  If that bothers you, you can
 always undefine them in config.sh.  :-) --Larry Wall in
 <9384@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>


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