Debian to cease inclusion of non-free?

[Michael ODonnell]

Debian fans may be distressed by the folowing proposal:

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200402/msg00106.html


...and in case you think no interesting packages fall
under the "non-free" classification, here's what I've
grepped (though I'm sure TMTOWTDI) from the non-free
package lists on my system, thus:


 cat /var/lib/apt/lists/*non-free* | grep -e '^Package:' | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -fdu | fmt


 3270 3270-common abc2mtex abs-guide abuse-sfx agrep album amiwm
 amoeba-data angband arabtex astrolog axe bass bsdgames-nonfree
 bulkmail c3270 chntpw ckermit cl-faq cl-infix clustalw clustalw-mpi
 clustalx cmap-adobe-cns1 cmap-adobe-gb1 cmap-adobe-japan1
 cmap-adobe-japan2 cmap-adobe-korea1 conserver conserver-client
 conserver-server crafty cthugha dgen diablo diablo-common
 diablo-readerd distributed-net distributed-net-pproxy doc-html-w3
 doc-linux-nonfree doc-linux-nonfree-html doc-linux-nonfree-text doc-rfc
 doc-rfc-0001-0999 doc-rfc-1000-1999 doc-rfc-2000-2999 doc-rfc-3000-3999
 doc-rfc-experimental doc-rfc-fyi-bcp doc-rfc-misc doc-rfc-old-std
 doc-rfc-std doc-rfc-std-proposed doom-wad-shareware dvipdfm-cjk-cmap eagle
 ebook-dev-kde20 edict-fpw eemu eemu-client eemu-server ezmlm ezmlm-src
 festlex-oald festvox-ellpc11k figfonts figfonts-cjk floater foiltex
 fractxtra gettyps gfont ggobi giflib giflib3g giflib3g-dev giflib-bin
 gimp1.2-nonfree gimp1.3-nonfree gliese gpcl graphviz grokking-the-gimp
 gs-aladdin gs-cjk-resource gsfonts-other gsn-curses gsn-jigsaw gumshoe
 hevea-doc hwb hypre hypre-doc if-transition inform inform-docs iozone3
 ipadic irpas jpeg2ps kernel-patch-2.4-fasttraks150 latex2html ldmud
 lgrind lha libapache-mod-fastcgi libforms-doc libgpcl0 libgpcl-dev
 libhypre1.6.0 libhypre-dev libmotif libmotif3 libmotif-dbg libmotif-dev
 libparmetis3.0 libparmetis-dev libsrgp libsrgpg1 libsrgpg1-dev lmbench
 lmbench-doc maelstrom mecab-ipadic mmix mmix-src mocka mol-drivers-macosx
 molphy moria motif-clients motif-doc mpg123 mpg123-esd mpg123-nas
 mpg123-oss-3dnow mpg123-oss-i486 mpi-specs mrouted mush mwavem mysql-doc
 mysql-nonfree ncompress netpbm-nonfree netperf newsgate nntpcache
 nntpcache-dev-doc nttcp nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev nvidia-graphics-drivers
 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-386 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-586tsc
 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686-smp
 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-k6 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-k7
 nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-k7-smp nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-modules-i386
 ocaml-book ocaml-book-en ocaml-book-fr ocaml-doc onlisp onlisp-code
 onlisp-pdf onlisp-ps openmotif opustex os8 parmetis parmetis-doc
 parmetis-test pcx pdp11-unix-v5 pdp11-unix-v6 pdp11-unix-v7 pgp5i
 pgplot5 php4-dbase phylip picon-domains picon-misc picon-news
 picon-unknown picon-usenix picon-users picon-weather pine pine-docs
 pine-tracker povray povray-3.5 povray-3.5-doc povray-3.5-examples
 povray-3.5-includes pr3287 ptex-jtex qmail qmail-src rancid rancid-cgi
 rancid-core rancid-installer rancid-util rar r-cran-mapproj revtex rpl
 rsaref2 rtlinux rutebook s3270 satan sattrack sattrack-x11 scilab scsh
 selfhtml serialmail serialmail-src sgb sgb-doc sgb-src shapetools-tutorial
 sl-modem sl-modem-daemon sl-modem-source snes9x snes9x-common snes9x-fx
 snes9x-opengl snes9x-svga snes9x-x so-far spectrum-roms spellcast
 spellcast-doc spim t1-xfree86-nonfree tads tads2 tads2-dev tads3 tads3-dev
 tads3-doc tads-dev tadsr tatctae tcl3270 tome tracker treetool trn
 trn4 ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10 ttf-kochi-naga10
 ttf-larabie ttf-larabie-deco ttf-larabie-straight ttf-larabie-uncommon
 ttf-mikachan ttf-xfree86-nonfree ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac tth ucbmpeg
 ucbmpeg-play ucspi-tcp ucspi-tcp-src unicorn unicorn-source unrar upx-nrv
 uqm-content vrwave w3-recs w3-recs-2002 w3-recs-2003 wap-wml-tools
 weather wip wwwcount x3270 x3270-htmldoc xearth xephem xfonts-naga10
 xfonts-scalable-nonfree xfractint xgobi xgobi-doc xmame xmame-fx
 xmame-gl xmame-svga xmame-x xmess-x xpacman xpdf-chinese-simplified
 xpdf-chinese-traditional xpdf-japanese xpdf-korean xpostitplus xshodo
 xslideshow xsnow xtrkcad xzx yale zangband zoo