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Re: merge non-free and contrib?

Manoj:
>  [merging contrib and non-free]
> 
> 	I like the idea.

Same here.  I could never really figure out what belonged where anyways.

I'm still sort of lukewarm about leaving them off of the official CD's.
For example, if we leave off the Netscape installer - people will
be constantly bombarding debian-user with questions about how to
install Netscape.  

Plus there is some stuff that is in the process of becoming free 
software, but hasn't quite made it yet.  One example I'm thinking of 
is the "kaffe" java virtual machine, which needs the Java class files 
from Sun.  There is a set of "kore" classes being developed, so it 
will eventually be unencumbered (maybe).  But if we refuse to distribute 
it - then we are robbing it of users, some of whom may have been interested 
in helping out making it totally free.  I'm sure there are other examples.

So maybe we do need a special category for things that are non-free,
but we would still like to distribute - as part of an effort to make
them totally free.  

Cheers,

 - Jim

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