Re: software distribution criteria

[Davi Leal]

MJ Ray wrote:
> John Darrington wrote:
> > MJ Ray wrote:
> > > - gNewSense pretends the non-free archives it can use (including
> > >   restricted / Multiverse) do not exist, even though it is easy to
> > >   find out how to use them, [...]
> >
> > You're being silly here.  Refusing to advertise a product is not
> > "pretending that it doesn't exist".
>
> gNewSense doesn't refuse to advertise Multiverse.  That's why it is
> easy to find out how to use them.  Unless something has changed, a
> simple question in any of the project discussion channels will get the
> instructions.  By "pretending that it doesn't exist" I mean not
> mentioning the existance on the project web site.  That's being silly.

What a guy can write you at an IRC discussion channel is not an 'official' 
position of a project.


> > I think it's entirely appropriate that a Free software project avoids
> > giving publicity to non-free software.  Doing otherwise is
> > incompatible with its very objective.
>
> Not if that publicity is designed to publicise the non-free nature of
> it.  Notice that the FSF and sometimes GNU announces and explains why
> software is non-free-software, like in the "Java trap".


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