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Re: merge non-free and contrib?

Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:

> I think we should consider to merge `non-free' and `contrib' now. These
> are the arguments for this:

I disagree.  CD-ROM vendors currently have it easy since they can just
leave off non-free and have a legal distribution set... if we merge
these, then they will either leave off contrib also, or they will be
forced to manually review the license of each individual package (a
daunting task).  I therefore am very much against this, because I fear
it will lead to less-complete CDs.

>   1. A lot of people here still don't understand that `non-free' does
>      _not_ mean `non-dfsg-compliant'.

Then let's clarify it.

>   2. Merging "non-free" and "contrib" would make life a lot easier for
>      the maintainers. (They could easily check if the package complies to
>      the DFSG and if it depends on packages out of `main'. Everything
>      that fails this can go into the new "non-free".)

I have no problem reviewing policy when I make a new package.

>      Since `contrib' has only 43 packages, this does not make much
>      difference for the CD vendors.

But if these 43 packages happen to be important...  eg, netscape
installer, etc.


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