On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Richard Stallman  wrote:

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> My main basis for judging any distro is the policies it has adopted.

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> Everyone makes mistakes, and well-intentioned people fix their

> mistakes.  So if someone finds a non-free program in gNewSense, or in

> OpenBSD, in violation of the distro's policies, that's no disaster.  I

> trust the developers will remove it once they find out.

just a layman here trying to make sense of it all. According to you,

gNewSense, an ubuntu (debian) derivitave -- is free software. I use

ubuntu on a laptop. According to gNewSense their policy supports use of

the universe and main package repositories from ubuntu with the

few mentioned changes. Apples to apples comparisons I say. I adjust

my repositories in a repository browser and poke away. I find java, I

find tools to work with many non-free pieces of software as well.
So OpenBSD becomes non-free because we don't have a database column

that labels stuff non-free, or a special folder for non-free packages?