> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > > > Adding something like: ``In addition, you may freely distribute copies of > > this microcode'' would be fine. Adding something like ``Special permission > > is given for this microcode to be distributed by the Debian project.'' > > would probably also be fine. > > Um, granting only Debian permission to distribute might get it in > non-free, but certainly doesn't allow it to be part of Debian. > > Thomas
This gets into the sticky area of what "Debian" is. A license specific to Debian wouldn't allow any private mirrors. Since "Debian" is not entirely well-defined, many official mirrors might fall into the category of "private mirror". So we should, as a matter of policy, not put things into non-free that can't, at least, be freely _distributed_ over the internet. They can have all sorts of wierd "non-commercial use" clauses or just be raw binaries (like netscape) that put it into non-free, but we have to be able to distribute it freely. Otherwise, all we can do is make an installer. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
