20 May
2006
20 May
'06
8:46 a.m.
I don't mean to sound negative, as Matt claims, but I am some what shocked by the attitude of shipping non-free non-oss is ok, because someday it *might* become completely oss.....
Doesn't make sense to me.
http://nonfree.alioth.debian.org/ Non-free is for packages that are free enough for Debian to distribute, but not free enough to meet the DFSG. Sun Java suits this case perfectly, assuming that the DLJ has actually relaxed the licensing agreement enough to allow Debian to distribute it. Whether or not it has is the argument. There is no requirement for software in non-free to be OSS. The NVIDIA and ATI drivers definitely aren't. Craig