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Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?



On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:19:48PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> if a program license restricts usage to e.g. non-commercial use only,
> will this (usually) disqualify a package from inclusion into non-free?

No, that's a classic example of the sort of thing that *is* included in
non-free. The sort of things that disqualify a package from inclusion
into non-free are more like "may not redistribute to third parties" or
"may not distribute together with our competitors' software".

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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