On Dec 11, 2007 3:21 PM, Karsten McMinn  wrote:

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

> >

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

> >

> > 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.

>

> 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?

It may be relevant to point out:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119731456628749&w=2

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> > Having a way to sift out the non-free stuff during a search of the ports

> > tree would be useful.

>

> PERMIT_*=(not Yes)

The infrastructure is all there, it's just not emphasized.
-Nick