On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 17:58, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Now, a DFSG-free program only needs one DFSG-free version of all of its > dependencies to be in main (and not contrib), but this is getting messy. > If B depends on A, and either A or B can be modified in any way, but some > modifications to A may make B non-free using that implementation, is B > free? > > *head spinning* I'm going to go code. It takes much less thought ...
It's not so hard to imagine a similar situation outside of TeX-world. To quote a recently seen example: nautilus -> libgnomevfs0 If you rebuild libgnomevfs0 and link it to OpenSSL, then you change the license status of nautilus. Think libgnomevfs0 as "A" and nautilus as "B". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
