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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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