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Auteur: hellekin
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [Dng] A devuan "constitution"
On 12/05/2014 09:53 PM, T.J. Duchene wrote:
>
> As a counter proposal, I would rather see Devuan drop the whole
> designation of contrib and non-free entirely, by combining them in a
> "community" section which can be supported by users in an unofficial
> capacity, thus freeing limited developer resources for work on the
> important parts. It would also have the effect of saying "We don't
> support this officially, but here the packages are. You take all legal
> responsibility for licenses and patents."
>

*** Then I would suggest calling that "unsupported" repository, as
non-free software's only relationship with community is that it's
antisocial. But I would certainly prefer seeing "contrib" and
"antisocial", than merging unsupported, but free, software, and
obviously antisocial non-free software in a single repository.

==
hk

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