Erick, Can you send them your package, and then ask for an explicit sub-license for distributing it as a Debian package? Most developers are willing to give you a special license for this sort of thing. Add that text to the end of their normal license in the debian.readme . Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> A campaigner for Clinton and against Censorship. Toy Story: $183M and counting. At $186M it will beat the #1 movie of 1995.