On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:38:15PM -0500, Steve Willer wrote: > I've been thinking about this, and it definitely has some appeal. It > doesn't limit the user's choices, and it might actually educate them. You > could even take it a step further and require non-free .debs to have a > field in them that describes *why* the package is "non-free" (patent > restrictions, license doesn't allow modified distribution of modified > binaries, etc.). Then vrms could list this information along with the > package. Ian Jackson proposed many months ago that all contrib and non-free packages contain files called README.why-contrib or README.why-non-free (perhaps he left out the "why-", I don't remember) that performed this explanatory function. It was a good idea, but seems to have been largely ignored. My package in contrib, xtrs, has a file called /usr/doc/xtrs/README.contrib-only that fulfills this purpose. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been branden@ecn.purdue.edu | garbled. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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