Re: reiser4 non-free? (I throw in the towel)

[mjt@nysv.org]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:59:15AM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> Debian.  If Debian offers to provide credits in practice but not theory, and 
>> there is some possibility of getting into a debian installer in the near 
>> future, then I can probably lose a little and risk a little and put both 
>> progs and kernel code into GPL V2 for now despite it being a license with  
>> flaws that beg for fixing.

Please, please, Debian people, make this happen!

>The GPL is a powerful and valuable tool, but if the developers don't
>want it to be free, it won't be, even if it's GPL.

That is so true.

>freedoms" may not be agreeable to everyone, but we can't ignore the
>value of consistant licensing in an OS. And many of the problems with
>DFSG are mitigated by having a well-integrated non-free section
>(unfortunately that doesn't solve the problems for reiserfs, which needs
>to be in the OS install).

If the non-free is not split away from Debian ;)

Besides, there's non-free and there's non-free.

There's non-free like DJB's software, that's free for most intents and
purposes but a bitch to redistribute.

There's non-free like Java, which should be illegal in most countries.

Debian is a little too black-and-white here, imo.
Non-free would benefit from some shades of black, even if I sort of
understand not having any shades of white.

-- 
mjt