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Author: chris
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] A devuan "constitution"
antisocial is an emotive word, I don't see anything wrong with non-free
and contrib

don't forget the "free" in "non-free" is "free" as in freedom not "free"
as in beer!

This exactly describes things like binary blob firmware, calling this
antisocial is no way to get a hardware vendor on-board...

On 06/12/14 06:23, hellekin wrote:
> 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
>