Freeness (Re: Idea for expanded support of some non-free software)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:47:10PM -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:

> Because of all this, Ubuntu should offer support for non-free formats when
> legally possible and when it greatly improves the user experience.  This
> seems like a similar situation to the one that led Ubuntu to include
> non-free drivers for hardware.

Please don't conflate these two issues.  Issues of freeness are an entirely
separate matter from issues of legality.  One has to do with the project
philosophy, and the other has to do with liability under the laws of various
governments.

They are entirely separate matters.

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 - mdz