Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on lyx/copyright ?
Dale Scheetz writes:
> > That's exactly the point. I cannot recompile any package that uses Motif
> > since I don't have it. But I can recompile LyX since we have an xforms
> > package available.
> >
> Folks that buy my CD can too, but that's because xforms is improperly
> located in contrib instead of non-free where it belongs (because source is
I think our consensus is that the non-free tree is for programs not freed by
teh copyright, while binary-only packages belong into contrib. Thus contrib
is the correct location.
> not distributed). Non-free is not part of the Debian distribution (in the
> most technical use of the term) and programs that depend on them belong in
> contrib (or non-free if they have distribution restrictions).
But with xforms belonging into contrib LyX is compilable by everyone.
Michael
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