On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:33:37PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00092.html > > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > > I once had a big old nasty flamewar with the FTP admins that > > was tangentially related to this point, but the FTP admins and I agreed > > that having non-free source code in a package's .orig.tar.gz was > > unacceptable even if it wasn't "used for anything" and did not appear in > > any binary packages. > > So I concede the point. In any case, making a new orig.tar.gz isn't > any harder than having the diff take it out. It's possible the FTP admins' assessment has changed since the debacle in question, which was a couple/3 years ago. My personal feeling is that we should not knowingly let non-free works into the Debian OS. The Debian OS is source as well as "binaries". -- G. Branden Robinson | There's nothing an agnostic can't Debian GNU/Linux | do if he doesn't know whether he branden@debian.org | believes in it or not. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Graham Chapman
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