Packages in contrib solely because they allow using non-free software

Sean Whitton spwhitton at spwhitton.name
Wed Apr 7 19:10:32 BST 2021


Hello Dominik,

On Sun 04 Apr 2021 at 11:17AM +02, Dominik George wrote:

> That surprised me. If a package is free software, in ful laccordance
> with the DFSG, why is it put into contrib?

Just to note that anything in contrib has to be fully free and
DFSG-compliant, so the issue is not about freedom but about the more
nebulous one of main being self-contained, as others have been
discussing.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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