Op dinsdag 13 maart 2001 21:50, schreef Juergen Kreileder: > >> I'm talking to Sun about a possible amendment to our license > >> which would allow our deb packages to go into Debian > >> (non-free). Currently I'm waiting for feedback from Sun's > >> legal department. > > Egon> That is great news! Let me know once you get the feedback. > > The basic answer[1] is yes, the packages can go into Debian non-free. > I just want to have an amendment to the license which explicitly says > that it's legal, it might take a few days more to get this done.
This is great news! I gues this is worth a news item, or at least a message to debian-devel@ ? (With the notice below...) > Footnotes: > [1] There's one restriction: If somebody wants to distribute the > packages on CD he has to ask Sun/Blackdown for permission. Wouldn't that be a problem? Since Debian is shipped as CD very often? You could simply not put non-free on CD but.... Egon
