Re: Bug#24011: x11ampg: x11amp is not DFSG-free, and should not be in contrib.
Hi,
Ooops. Egg in my face. Yes, we do distribute binary only
packages in non-free, if it is permissible to do so. (I personally
would not put such a package on my machine unless I absolutely had
to, just from a mistrust of binaries whose code is not open for a
security audit).
Sorry, folks. I let good sense get in the way of actual facts ;-)
manoj
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> If the source code is not available, then we can not release
>> it at all. Like netscape, we may create an installer package. It
>> certainly is not free software.
Joey> Er, no. If distribution of the binaries is allowed, we can package them in
Joey> non-free.
>> If the sources are not available, this package should be
>> removed from the archive.
Joey> No, it belongs in non-free.
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