Ututo-e, the 'only free distribution' (NewsForge)

Ututo-e, the 'only free distribution' (NewsForge)

It's because of non-free. The argument that "non-free is not part of Debian" doesn't hold up; it obviously is, and claims otherwise are just word games. For example, notice that release-critical bugs that are in non-free are counted at release-critical for Debian.

The GFDL dispute has been waived for Sarge, but even after that, Debian will be including all those docs. They're just going to change the label from "main" to "non-free". And that is all it is, a label.

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