Re: Does anybody package GateD?
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> : There seems to be an informal policy that Debian will not seek special
> : licenses, not even for stuff in non-free.
>
> Informal nothing. Quoted from the Debian Social Contract:
>
> ...
> 8.License Must Not Be Specific to Debian
>
> The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's
> being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from
> Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within
> the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program
> is redistributed should have the same rights as those that
> are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.
> ...
>
>
That, if I'm not mistaken, is from the DFSG.
This means that it is irrelevant to non-free.
Hence the significance of Espy's phrase 'not even for stuff in non-free'
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