On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 20:31 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Le jeudi 12 août 2010, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > The current approach of the project in these cases seems to be that > > the right thing to do is to rebuild the source package so that the > > non-free pieces are removed. > > Non-free? According to the DFSG, are not they free? I cannot see any > point of the DFSG that such a program, distributed both in source and > compiled form, with a free license, compilable only with non-free tools, > would infringe. > > I thought they were only failing one policy condition to be in the free > area, but not the DFSG. As the policy section 2.2.2 says: > > Every package in contrib must comply with the DFSG. > > So if such a non-recompilable, free-licensed binary fails the DFSG, it > should not even go to contrib, but to non-free! > Tanguy
You may want to look at this thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/08/msg00082.html Best regards Charlie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281639570.2772.27.ca...@debian
