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Re: gated

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
> > Debian would not be distributing gated. The developer does and uses
> > Debian's mirror sites for that purpose. non-free is not part of the
> > official distribution as far as I know.
> 
> It would be very difficult to convince anyone that Debian was not
> distributing gated if gated was in Debian's own ftp site.

I think I was mistaken - Bruce is right; the big problem here is the
requirement to sign a license...  However, the next thought that comes to
mind is redhat's 'contrib', where they place rpm's contributed by others,
with the clear idea that they are *not official* (doubtless they make this
quite clear to avoid problems).  I really prefer the idea of downloading
software that is official, and probably a bit more secure, but is this
something we want to explore?  A non-official directory?  It might be a
good way to distribute something like gated untill we can convince them to
change. 

What do others think?  Maybe Vitamin D could be a subdirectory for
*unofficial* .deb's?  

I kind of like the idea of something 'availabe where Debian is', in the
way that redhat's contrib is, instead of having totally seperate mirror
sites.

Anyway, maybe I should just be quiet and go back to my perl code - it's so
much simpler than all this:-)

David Welton   
davidw@efn.org  davidw@freenet.hut.fi  http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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