Re: Deltad archive (WAS: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Two non-free programs in gNewSense)

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:24:28 +0930
Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:23:25 -0400
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >     > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-deltad/pool/universe/d/d4x/
> >     > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-deltad/pool/universe/i/ivman/
> > 
> >     Its our 1.x release - the archive is only available for systems
> > still running 1.x/historical interest.
> > 
> > Please delete the non-free programs from those archives too.
> > Just being in an old release doesn't make it ok to distribute
> > proprietary software.
> 
> Can anyone think of a good reason to keep these repos public facing?
> We may be required to keep the source 'net facing, but the binaries?
> 
> I'm wondering this since its meant to be a dead release. If its still
> going to take dev power to maintain, perhaps its easier to keep it
> properly retired.

For the record, the following need to be removed still[1]

isdnutils
nikto
firefox
vrms
app-install-data-commercial
afio
fpc
ndiswrapper
ndisgtk
d4x
rman
cracklib2
pdftk
ivman
blobwars
starfighter
viruskiller

> I've unlinked the repositories for the moment, ftr.
> kk
> 

[1] And can be removed when archive.gns.o has its filesystem issues are
resolved.

-- 
Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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