Henning Makholm wrote:
No, because the quoted license explicitly allows the distribution of binaries built from modified sources. That kind of patch-clause licenses is specifically blessed by DFSG #4.
OK. I think understand. qmail and pine are non-free because they disallow binary distribution, period. gnuplot can go into main since the Debian project distributes sources as a .orig.tar.gz and a .diff.gz (except for native Debian packages like apt)?
For instance, if DFSG required the ability to distribute complete modified source as one monolithic entity, then that would be incompatible. Correct? I am just trying to make sure that I understand this, for my own edification.
-Roberto
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