On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:19:08PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > Actually, the installer would go into contrib, unless you're planning to > use a non-DFSG-free license for the installer itself. The program itself > is DFSG free, it just depends on (gets) a non-free program. > > >If not, we could ask Macromedia for an exceptional permission. Does > >anyone know how such a permission should be asked? (Maybe an e-mail > >template...) > > NO! The email template for asking debian specific permission is DON'T DO > IT. I cannot emphasize it strongly enough: Debian neither will nor even > can ask for debian-specific permission, see DFSG #8:
First let me mention that I am not a lawyer. That said, I don't see why DFSG #8 should affect programs in non-free. I am not taking a position on the main topic of this thread, but why would any rules of the DFSG apply to non-free? I thought that was the whole point of that (separate) distribution. Is there some reason other than the DFSG why a Debian-specific license could not be used to put something in non-free? Please CC me on your replies - getting an extra copy of replies to my messages works well with my procmail filters. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
