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Re: XFree86 license difficulties



On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:22:05PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> Yeah. My own personal feeling is that we shouldn't be distributing
> anything to which we need to apply this exception, unless it's
> something that we have historically considered to be covered under
> it.

Huh?  "unless that component itself accompanies the executable".  Debian
can't use the OS exception.  (It seems that the OS exception is intended
to allow people to use GPL programs on non-free systems, while not
allowing non-free systems to include GPL programs directly.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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