On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 03:12:06PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 06:30:01AM -0500, Jeramy B Smith wrote: > > > why is that LinuxPPC has the latest netscape communicator > > > up and running but Debian does not? > > > > > > Sergio > > > > I thought it was because Netscape 3,4 aren't totally free. Maybe 5 will make > > the Debian requirements. > > Debian has several different distributions. main, contrib, non-free > and non-US. The main distribution only allows Free Software as > defined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines > (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). contrib and > non-free are "not part of the Debian system, although it has been > configured for use with Debian." Seems a pretty thin distinction to > me, but at least the line is there. > > Anyhow, stuff like Netscape, which is just free beer, goes into > non-free. Mozilla's (Netscape 5) NPL license allows it to go into the > main distribution. They're both currently in the Powerpc distribution > under non-free/web and main/web respectively. Mozilla is at M8 > (current milestone), Netscape is at 4.6 (looks like pieces of 4.61 are > there). I don't know what the current version of Netscape is, but > something tells me it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
PowerPC 4.61 is much better than 4.6. It's not packaged yet. I spoke to the maintainer twenty seconds ago, and he's looking for it now. > I wonder, does MySQL's "Its free unless you're using Windows" license > fail the "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"? Yep. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
