On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> My main basis for judging any distro is the policies it has adopted.
>
> Everyone makes mistakes, and well-intentioned people fix their
> mistakes.  So if someone finds a non-free program in gNewSense, or in
> OpenBSD, in violation of the distro's policies, that's no disaster.  I
> trust the developers will remove it once they find out.

just a layman here trying to make sense of it all. According to you,
gNewSense, an ubuntu (debian) derivitave -- is free software. I use
ubuntu on a laptop. According to gNewSense their policy supports use of
the universe and main package repositories from ubuntu with the
few mentioned changes. Apples to apples comparisons I say. I adjust
my repositories in a repository browser and poke away. I find java, I
find tools to work with many non-free pieces of software as well.

So OpenBSD becomes non-free because we don't have a database column
that labels stuff non-free, or a special folder for non-free packages?