Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no approval process for free licenses within Debian: > > "Please note however, that the Debian project decides on particular > packages rather than licenses in abstract, and the lists are general > explanations. It is possible to have a package containing software under > a "free" license with some other aspect that makes it non-free." > > http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/index.en.html
Why then did Debian decide around August 2006 that the CDDL is generally accepted? > > > > Claim 2: "The build system for a GPLd program needs to be under GPL" > > > It is about linking, as part of the build process. Please do not try to confuse people with FUD. The main claim from Eduard Bloch on why there should be a problem with cdrtools was of course: Claim 2: "The build system for a GPLd program needs to be under GPL" Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list