Raul Miller wrote:
One can package software with most restrictive license you can imagine,
but this can not produce any ethical problem, until it will be
*distributed*. If distribution is not performed, it can not produce
described non-ethical situations, neither #1 nor #2.
In your example here, it's the license which is the potential problem,
not the software. The phrase "until it will be distributed" makes that
very obvious.
I will try to separate things. There can be two cases:
1. 'A' produces software and distributes with non-free license. Debian
does not produce software with non-free licenses. It is not interesting
case for us now.
2. Debian gets program from 'A' with non-free license and distributes
it. In this case all that situations which will happen around programs
distributed by Debian are consequences of such a chain:
'A' produces and _distributes_ _under_ _non-free_ _license_ to Debian -
Debian _distributes_ _under_ _non-free_ _license_ to user.
It is not correct to say that the problem is in license, or the problem
is in distribution.
The problem is in *distribution* *with* *non-free* *license*. License
have no meaning without distribution.
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Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov
