Re: Are DFSG free package in non-us part of Debian?
joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Martin Schulze) wrote on 15.11.98 in <[🔎] 19981115002441.C21460@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>:
> If software can't be exported from the US it cannot be DFSG free.
Utter nonsense.
> Please look into the DFSG which says:
>
> 1. Free Redistribution
>
> The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from
> selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate
> software distribution containing programs from several different
> sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such
> sale.
>
> (However I have to admit that the restinction is not based on
> the "license" but on "patents" and "law").
Nope, *only* on law. No patents involved in the export restriction.
And the DFSG was intentionally written that way so a restriction by law
*would not* make something DFSG-free.
> There is also a technical for objecting to your proposal: If a
> package *in* main depends on or recommends a package *outside of*
> main you'll get a showstopper if you try to install the package
> and don't have a non-US part handy. (think of a new Infomagic
> CD for example).
>
> > Seconders?
>
> I hope not.
I second.
MfG Kai
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