Debian to cease inclusion of non-free?

[Randy Edwards]

Michael ODonnell wrote:
> Debian fans may be distressed by the folowing proposal:
> 
>  http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200402/msg00106.html

    This has come up on my DebianHelp site 
<http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3254>

    As noted in the article:

"How would this change affect Debian users? Very little. Read on for more 
information.  Bruce Perens has already registered the domain nonfree.org for 
the purposes of distributing non-free sofware packaged for Debian. If this 
GR passes, Debian users who wish to continue using non-free software need 
only change their sources.list from
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
to
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb http://ftp.nonfree.org/debian/ stable non-free

> ...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

    There's no reason to grep -- Debian includes vrms, the "Virtual Richard 
M. Stallman" program. :-)  As you probably guessed, it'll give you a listing 
of all of your installed non-free Debian packages.

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