this is more appropriate for debian-devel or debian-mentor On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:02:48AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A few months ago I put together a Debian floppy-maker script for usage > > on powerpc. The script depends on the MacOS-provided Applescript > > 'shell' and the scriptable Disk Copy program. The point was made > > before, that since these MacOS programs are not free (they come with > > all MacOS distributions), a script depending on them would not be > > Debian-distributable. > > If, for example, you wrote a GPL program for AIX that relied upon > their version of cc, I don't see how anyone could object: "IBM's > version of cc isn't GPL'd!"
the issue is more of: though the floppy-maker script is GPL'd, and DFSG compliant, it _requires_(depends upon) something that fails the DFSG. thus, it would have to go into contrib, and cannot be a part of Debian proper. -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
