On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:44:01AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > 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.
if linux kernel distributes itself such a derivative work why debian can't? -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
