gnubuntu (was Re: Recent Security vulnerability in Skype)

> Just follow the FSF (four freedoms) and DFSG. It would be nice to have
> packages with patent/legal problems (like LAME?) in a separate
> repository. It _is_ free software. I'd say remove all restricted and
> multiverse, but if it's actually free software (no non-free
> dependancies), put these in a special repository.

on a purely practical point of view (and since I'm more or less
totally clueless about this subject), how someone  figure out the
status of the 15000+ packages Ubuntu/Debian carries?   Another email
suggested that we use only FSG-approved packages for GNUbuntu.  Does a
group can go to them and ask for a seal of approval for each
individual packages, or it is someone that be self-audited? (in both
cases, it seems to be a large endavour considering the size of the
archive)  Or the current main/universe vs restricted/multiverse
demarcation is good enough for now?

Or we're better off waiting for debian coming up with new debtags?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00257.html

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Daniel Robitaille