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Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on lyx/copyright ?



Dale Scheetz writes:
> 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

That's why there is no source available. :-)

> source distribution restriction is what makes Xforms' proper location to
> be non-free.

It was once decided that binary-only packages belong into contrib.

Michael

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