free packages in nonfree repo

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 11.08.2008 22:11, Julian Sikorski wrote:

> today I realised that there are two sldmame frontends in the nonfree 
> repo (qmc2 and gnome-video-arcade), which are perfectly free themselves 
> as licensed under GPL. Since these pieces of software are pretty much 
> useless without sdlmame, they were put into the nonfree repo, and have 
> sdlmame present in their Requires. Do you think they should stay in 
> nonfree, or rather be moved to free? And what with requires then?

As they seems to be pretty useless without sdlmame I'd say that leaving 
the requires in and leaving the package in nonfree is likely the best. 
It's might be wise to add a README to the package or CVS to explain the 
situation for the curious.

CU
knurd