IANAL either, of course, even though I play one in class from time to
time; since my name has been invoked I'll stick my head in.

Some questions/comments:

* is there a clear definition of what the requirements are for being in
'main'? I can't find one. Mark Pilgrim's argument assumes that for a
package to be in main requires that all copyrighted content in the
package must be DFSG Free. I can't actually find a definition of main,
so I have no idea if this is actually true or not. (Depending on the
answer here, one option could be that Ubuntu free-ness is redefined to
mean 'DFSG free, except that trademark restrictions are allowed.')

* Rob, isn't there the distinct possibility that mysql is not correctly
in main either? Or am I missing something?

* Mark missed another potential option- that firefox, without
icons/trademarked strings, be distributed in main, and that a separate
package containing trademarked icons/strings be distributed in
restricted. This is effectively what Red Hat does with their trademarked
RHEL and Fedora icons, I believe.

Anyway, it seems like without a little more information on those first
two questions, this bug is a little muddied.

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https://launchpad.net/bugs/83118

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