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Re: new definition of non-free

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:

> On 24 Jul 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> 
> > I think there are a fair number of packages which are free, but depend
> > or recommend non-free or non-US packages (for example all the programs
> > that work with pgp).
> > 
> > Whether we do decide to merge contrib into non-free, I really think we
> > need another directory in non-free - copyrights, which contains the
> > copyright files out of each package.  I can very easily do this
> > automatically.  Even better is someone (Vitamin D obviously) would
> > periodically review all those copyrights and summarize the
> > restrictions in one file.
> 
> As "non-US" packages may be free or not, the "copyrights" directory should 
> be added to the "non-US" section too. (more work for "Vitamin D"?)

No, this makes things only more complicated. dselect can currently only
handle one directory level for distributions (AFAIK). If we don't split
non-us any further, it's possible to place it below hamm:

       hamm/main
       hamm/contrib
       hamm/non-free
       hamm/non-us

This is _not_ possible if non-us has non-us/contrib and non-us/non-free
subdirs.

Also note, that non-us is _not_ considered as part of the main
distribution. (For example, packages depending or recommending non-us
packages will have to go into contrib--or non-free in the future).

Since CD vendors have to check the licenses of non-us packages anyways
and non-us has only 10 packages, it's not necessary to do any further
sub-division.

However, as I said it is very important that we create "stable" and
"unstable" trees for non-us, too.


Thanks,

Chris

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