Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Masover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> First and foremost: Hans, this is your project. Someone willing to >> replace entire APIs with things that feel like files is obviously not >> afraid of creating something new. So at the end of the day, it >> shouldn't matter too much that it's in Debian Non-free, especially if >> (assuming I heard correctly) XFree86 is also non-free. > > People seem to be missing this issue, so I'll bring it up again. The > problem is not so much whether the license is free or not. The > problem is that it is incompatible with the GPL. That means that > Debian can't distribute it _at all_. Not in main, not in non-free. > Not at all. > > The license may be perfectly free (e.g. the IBM CPL), but if it is > incompatible with the GPL, then Debian can't distribute it.
You're right, Walter, and thank you for the clarification. To clarify further, Debian can't distribute a derivative work of the Linux kernel which is not licensed under the GPL. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
