Red Eclipse now in Debian main

[arand]

After approximately the 37:th round of discussions regarding how the dfsg (Debian Free Software Guidelines) applies to media content and its purported "source", it was suddenly decided that Red Eclipse would probably fit in main after all, and today it was accepted into main. This means that Red Eclipse is now officially part of Debian proper, woop woop!

[qreeves]

Wow, I honestly thought we'd stay in non-free forever. I'm glad though, free software projects have a hard enough time getting free content, let alone the source files that created them. Now we just have to make sure it stays relatively up to date.

[SylvieLorxu]

Awesome!

[unixfreak]

That's awesome. Just in time for debians 21st birthday Hopefully it will bring more people online.

[Calinou]

[qreeves]

Don't those repositories require the user add them to their apt sources?

[Calinou]

[Evropi]

I don't know about contrib, but the Debian installer asks if you want to add the non-free repo in case there is a non-free driver available for one of your pieces of hardware... which is generally the case for almost all machines.

[death]