[Fsf-Debian] No response?

Bryan Quigley gquigs at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 00:19:26 UTC 2012


>
> > Op 03-08-12 17:46, Daniel Kahn Gillmor schreef:
> > > Debian is already 100% free software.
> >
> > In Debian there is a contrib and a non-free section. This is
> > officially not a part of Debian, but in reality it is (in my opinion).
>
> The Debian project says those sections are not part of Debian,
> explicitly in their foundational documents. Do we not allow the Debian
> project to say what is and is not part of Debian?
>

So if Ubuntu declares that multiverse and restricted are not "part of
Ubuntu" the FSF should take their word on it? [For this requirement, Ubuntu
has other issues]

>
> > I don't want to change that, but I want to "move it away" to another
> > organisation.
>
> Okay. But can we at least agree to use the definition of “Debian” that
> the Debian project have given consistently from the beginning?

 What project or system is non-free a part of?

Please see "Why is this important?"  http://www.gnu.org/distros/

-Bryan
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