Debian votes to keep non-free

Posted Mar 22, 2004 10:30 UTC (Mon) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035)
In reply to: Debian votes to keep non-free by amacater
Parent article: Debian votes to keep non-free

There has also been discussion about setting up a separate entity with separate servers - nonfree.org - which may or may not go ahead now.

This is undecided right now - the person who agreed to host the box and was having a good deal of the Debian archive infrastructure installed already was not amenable to keep on with the non-free.org effort should the resolution fail.

A probable outcome would be to not clone the current non-free part of Debian somewhere else but rather start a new service where current and future maintainers of non-free software could migrate/host their packages. If this proves successful, it could lead to the obsolence of non-free on debian.org in a couple of years, who knows?

I would have to check back with the people supporting non-free.org and also a new box and hosting would be needed most probably.

Michael