Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 02:18:57PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >>> Note that the license says "... is distributed *with* your Operating >>> System", and not "is part of". I don't know where you read the "part of" >>> bit? Anyway, we definitely do distribute non-free *with* our OS, it's in >>> debian/pool/non-free on all our mirrors alongside debian/pool/main, and >>> distributing it in the same directory hierarchy is definitity "with" in >>> my book. > >> Does that imply, though, that one cannot mirror non-free separately from >> Debian, or put it on a separate CD which one can purchase or distribute >> separately? For example, such a clause would prevent Debian from >> distributing non-free on a separate server, as proposed a while back. > > It may imply this, but this is not a barrier to Debian's inclusion of the > packages under the current non-free regime. > > The only real requirement for a package's inclusion in non-free is: "can we > distribute it?" We don't make any guarantees that other people can also > distribute it outside of a Debian mirror, or on CDs, or anything else. > There have definitely been non-free packages in the past that could *not* be > distributed separately from the Debian mirrors or that could not be > distributed on CDs.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just raising a point for discussion. Even non-free licenses could stand improvement towards becoming less non-free. - Josh Triplett
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