On 12/12/2007, Richard Stallman  wrote:

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>     As a last question. Will gNewSense become "non-free" if I start a "ports-like"

>     software install package project for it?

>

> If your install package has ports for non-free software, then it would

> promote non-free software.

>

> If it were included in or recommended by gNewSense, then gNewSense

> would promote non-free software.  I trust they wouldn't do that,

> because their policies are not to do that.

And I repeat again:

The OpenBSD ports tree is *neither included in nor recommended* by OpenBSD.

OpenBSD *Does. Not. Do. That.* because OpenBSD's policies are not to do that.
The OpenBSD packages system cannot be used install non-free software,

because there are none. However, it is trivially easy to use the

gNewSense apt system to install unfree software. This requires three

steps at most. From

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype#head-5c18cc60f56f7f5f651ee9abeca...

(Yes, this is an Ubuntu site, but AFAIK the exact same instructions

can be used on gNewSense.):

   1. Add the Skype repository to /etc/apt/sources.list:

  deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

   2. Reload or update the package information

   3. Install the skype package.
Richard, I am just asking you to be consistent and avoid the

impression of biased decisionmaking based on a conflict of interest.
Thanks and regards,

--ropers
PS:

Ok, and I *know* I should not be trolling, but I have to get this over with:

gNewSense -- nuisance ;o)

There. I feel better now. I had to get that off my chest. Sorry, Could

Not Resist. ;-)