On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:47 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 21:26, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:56 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > Will the package be orphande next time? > > > > > > > > No, depending on the outcome of the licensing issues, either the > > > > current maintainers still continue to maintain the package, or it has > > > > to be removed from Debian completely. > > > > > > IMHO we have to have a GPL'd package. > > > > Hopefully, this will never be a requirement. Many people just hate GPL > > and gives their preferences to an existing OSI-approved alternatives. > > The requirement for main is to have a DFSG-compliant package (the license > either could be GPL, 3-clause BSD, Apache, MIT, Artistic, ...). That is DFSG > compliance what counts here, not just OSI approval. Please read that very > carefully: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00027.html
Thanks. I'm glad Debian respects other than GPL licenses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
