Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on lyx/copyright ?
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 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.
Pine is in non-free because it's copyright places restrictions on the
distribution of source. Xforms has more severe restrictions on the
distribution of source than pine does. It is my understanding that this
source distribution restriction is what makes Xforms' proper location to
be non-free.
Luck,
Dwarf
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