On Thu, 08 May 2003, Anthony Towns wrote: > As far as I know, we're happy to accept non-free stuff in pristine > .orig.tar.gz's as long as it's not used. I'd actually expect apt-get source foo to return sources that are DFSG free, when foo is in main or contrib. Granted, you should be checking the licenses of any source that you use before you use it, but I would assume many of us expect all of the software and sources in main to be free under the DFSG. > If you don't have a pristine .orig.tar.gz anyway, then it's silly to > include unused non-free stuff, but it's not cause for a REJECT. But it seems strange (to me anyway) that an ftp-master would be finding this out in a situation where a maintainer didn't already know about it. Either someone didn't look over the code and licenses when they were packaging, didn't examine the diff between versions, was otherwise unaware of what they were uploading, or knew and didn't have time to do anything abou it. Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence Point. -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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