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Re: packages in contrib that are DFSG-compliant

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> From: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
> > Maybe we should add in the DFSG, that to be Free(tm) a software must NOT
> > depend on a non free software to be built or ran.
> > 
> > Or use the (recursive ;) definition:
> > "A software is DFSG compliant if and only if all the other softwares it
> > needs to be built or ran are also DFSG-compliant."
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing opinions on this.

Some people said that this is already implied--I don't know.

However, it will things more complicated if we want to apply DFSG to
contrib too.

> If we wanted to apply this criteria to "contrib", I don't think it's a
> problem. 

Huh? It would be a great problem! If we would apply `DFSG+consistency' to
contrib too, contrib would get like "main" (there would be no distinction
between contrib and main, so contrib will be obsolete) and _all_ packages
currently in contrib would get "non-free".

This would be like the suggestion to merge "contrib" and "non-free".

This is really a _bad_ idea.


Thanks,

Chris

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