Re: New section cdrom-able (?)
Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De> writes:
> There are mainly two reasons why something would become a non-us
> package:
> - patent problems (as e.g. bzip)
We're not being too consistent on this. Many of the programs in
non-free are there because of patent problems with LZW.
Maybe bzip could just be in non-free? (I hope nobody wants to move
all the LZW code to non-US.)
Guy
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