On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:40:28PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Ian Beckwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I know what they are gettting at, the wording is so big commercial > > unix vendors have to pay. Is there a way to say this while remaining > > DFSG-free? > > No. (If there was, it would be a bug in the wording of the DFSG, and > such bugs are fixed informally and unceremonially by Debian deciding > not to distribute the software in main or contrib anyway).
That settles it then. > The closest one gets is probably the GPL, which would prevent a > commercial vendor from providing linked binaries in the same product > as their proprietary libc. However, nothing would prevent the same > vendor from providing convenience builds as a separate add-on to > their OS. I passed this on to upstream, and as I suspected they aren't going for it. So, unless/until they change their business model, ckermit stays in non-free. Thanks for the advice, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://nessie.mcc.ac.uk/~ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Swans - Love of Life - Picture of Maryanne
