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Re: Opera in your repos



On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:39:43PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 01:59:55PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > We need the redistribution bit, I don't think we need it to be allowed
> > > to be used by all users.  Non-commercial is fine in non-free, or at
> > > least was, last time I checked.
> 
> > I wouldn't be surprised if our requirements have increased even in that
> > regard in recent years.
> 
> > At least nowadays I mostly expect stuff that has weird licenses about
> > modification and following redistribution in non-free.  I hardly expect
> > stuff that one is not even allowed to use.  But maybe that's just me. :)
> 
> I think that's just you.  There has been no decision by the project to
> change the license requirements for non-free, and if the ftp masters have
> decided this, they haven't disclosed it anywhere appropriate.

Indeed, last time I checked, the requirement was that Debian is allowed
to redistribute the stuff, which kind of makes sense ;)
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