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[Robert Figura <rfigura AT aubergine.zwischengesicht.de>]

Am Thursday 03 November 2005 07:28 schrieb Sergey A. Lipnevich:

> I'd like to second this on a condition that 95% of spells in the main
> grimoire are actually "free" in this sense (otherwise it's probably not
> worth it). We may also want to move stuff back from z-rejected if it's
> GPL or similarly licensed, but binary, and create z-binary section.
> It's not clear how to set up "detached" z-rejected so that it's still
> under our control. Can its source reside on the same physical server but
> under a different host name (vhost)? Alternatively, if we switched to
> something like monotone or darcs, if I understand correctly there's no
> need for central repository at all, so the biggest issue with z-rejected
> may become publishing it, not maintaining. Free or not, many people
> worked hard to build z-rejected, and it's a valuable asset of SMGL.

I think it would only be necessary to package a FSFree SMGL iso, with the 
non-free software stripped. Just because i'm a developer doesn't mean i 
have to restrict my development machine to free software. The GPL doesn't 
say anything about the development process, only about the resulting 
source. If we can trim SMGL to comply FSF rules doesn't mean we all have to 
end up with the small-but-free version.

After all, the social contract is a contract between developers and/resp. 
user base, not between a human being and a linux distro. I can't see the 
point why the same community shouldn't support two (very similar) distros.

Why not regularly spawn a free iso?

Hmm... sorting the grimoires, remove some z-rejected references, make free 
compliant docs, package an iso from it. Looks like affordable.

Maybe i didn't get it, though. But it shouldn't be harder for a source based 
distro to get on that list than for a binary.

I've actually taken a look at the links on the list and i can't believe it. 
Again i lost sight of the benefits.

Regards
  - Robert Figura

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