Two more questions:

About repositories:
Where will the package be placed in each one of that possibilities?

About the third possibility:
how the package have to be done to be accepted by the ftpmaster? why could
ftpmaster reject it?

thanks for your answers, it's being really helpful.


2009/11/1 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jose Antonio Quevedo
> <joseantonio.quev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, it will never be included in main repository with this source code,
> but,
> > does it mean debian will not distribute this package in any way? will it
> not
> > even be included in contrib or non-free repository?
>
> Stuff that is not distributable cannot be included in contrib/non-free.
>
> Ways it could enter Debian include:
>
> Upstream adds the OpenSSL exception to their license grant and
> releases a new version.
>
> Someone ports it to an SSL library that has a license that is
> compatible with the ossec license (such as GnuTLS).
>
> Some kind of ossec-src style package that builds contains a copy of
> the source code in the .deb and builds ossec during the installation
> of the .deb. This is likely to be rejected by the ftpmasters though.
>
> Until one of these happens it cannot be distributed by Debian.
>
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> pabs
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