discuss: Non-free still exists (was Re: Debian-free licenses)
Subject:
Re: Non-free still exists (was Re: Debian-free licenses)
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
10 Mar 2005 08:54:54 -0000
Message-Id: <20050310085452.GG27314@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting David Lawyer ####@####.####
> So I thought that the nonfree package had been replaced by the regular
> package. I also couldn't find the nonfree packages in the package list,
> but I wasn't looking in the right list. I should have looked at the
> non-free list.
Just because someone will probably eventually mention it: Debian is, in
a formal sense, defined as the contents of the main package collection
only -- though the other three collections are neither more nor less
accessible, if enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list. Many rather tedious
semantic disputes have revolved around that theoretical distinction.
(I'm hoping that mentioning it will avert the possibility, here. ;-> )
