Re: Source packages generating non-free and free binary packages (was: Re: [Debian Installer <maor-installer@debian.org>] Reminder: imagemagick_4.2.9-1_i386.changes was rejected)

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

> Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> 
> > You put the source to non-free and it generates a non-free and a main
> > binary package. No source duplication, no policy or law violation.
> 
> Can a package in main have its source in non-free ?

IMO, not if the source is *only* in non-free.  It must also be in
main.  Packages in the Debian main section must include source in the
Debian distribution, and therefore that source must also be in main,
since non-free is not part of the Debian distribution.
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