Note that the Debian project, as a pragmatic concession to its users, does make
some packages available that do not meet our criteria for being free. These
packages are not part of the official distribution, however, and are only
available from the contrib or non-free areas of
Debian mirrors or on third-party CD-ROMs; see the Debian FAQ, under ``The Debian
FTP archives'', for more information about the layout and contents of the
archives.
For information on how to locate, unpack, and build binaries from Debian source
packages, see the Debian
FAQ, under ``Basics of the Debian Package Management System''.