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Re: Free component in a non-free tarball



On 2022-08-31 07:44:55 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Dettbarn wrote:
[...]
> Granted, you might be able to download the part, safely cut it out
> of whatever proprietary software is around it, but the next
> distribution (Redhat, Arch, FreeBSD) might run into the same
> issue.
[...]

While not ideal, that would be far from the first time distros used
the source code supplied by other distros as a basis for their own
packages.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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