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



On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:50:39PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> writes:
> > AFAIK, non-free only needs permission to redistribute.
> 
> Yes. For examples of disqualified-from-non-free software look at the
> various installers. Newer Sun JDKs also haven't made it into non-free
> (don't remember why).
> 
> We also sometimes disqualify software for patent reasons, although I
> find that a slippery slope. There is a cannot-be-packaged page
> somewhere, but I misplaced it.

http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package

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