On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Karl Ferguson wrote: > At 03:09 PM 12/8/96 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > >Please advice Joel Goldberger to include the non-free stuff as well > >because lots of people -- like me ;-) -- *do* need this software. I > >already wrote him a message asking to do so but your word may have > >possibly more weight! > > The whole idea for the "non-free" area is that it belongs to programs with > difficult copyright notices such as it's not to be distributed etc. I > seriously doubt that any CD manufacturer will include it on a distributed CD > because it may well break copyright laws. > This isn't exactly true. A package can go into non-free if commercial use is not allowed. A CD manufacturer can then put the package on the CD if they make a notice that commercial use is prohibited. At least this is how I understand it.
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