Re: packages license

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 17:02, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> What as a distributor would we recommend the people installing. ie.
> Would we install any "non-free" packages ?
> 
> I'm thinking of java, the microsoft core fonts, and some other things
> with dubious legal status (under US laws that is, like lame, freetype
> with hinting, gif plugin for gimp, etc.).

I'm willing to install non-free stuff, but I'd (obviously) prefer to
restrict it to as little as possible. I'm happy to have a 90% free
software product on 100 desktops rather than a 100% free software on 90
desktops.

-Seth