Re: Intent to move mysql-base and mysql-dev to main
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> The binary is only free if the source is free. If each
> component in an upstream tarball has different license, some free and some
> not, it is valuable to everyone to split the source into its free and
> non-free components, putting them in separate tarballs for proper
> archival.
Actually, it was my intention to be lazy and leave the whole upstream
source tarball in non-free, and to put a 'freebits' tarball (a subset
of the upstream source) in main. This has the advantage that we have
the pristine source archived someplace (albeit in non-free).
Scott
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