On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:27:10AM -0500, Alex Lau wrote: > Florian Weps ????: > >BTW, does anybody know how for example dbishell manages to be in main, > >and still have support specifically for oracle? > > > >Florian > > > > > > > I think you are looking for what I'm looking for. :) I don't think there > are any free client for Oracle since all lib connecting to oracle is > not free (but I could be wrong ). So even just client you will need to > install oracle no matter work. (jdbc thin client is possible to connect > with out install in oracle ) But it is still not free. > Anyway, I would like to see some package like my tool ( even in contrib ) > will able to use other non-free software also. That's my question, will > that against the debian police? > > Alex If your software has a DFSG-free license, but won't work without non-free software, then it has to go into contrib, where it has nothing to fear from the Debian police :) Florian
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