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Re: Intent to Sponsor: Galeon



On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:14:34PM -0400, Dan Nguyen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:36:32PM +0100, John O Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to package galeon for Debian but when I went looking for
> > source I found that someone had already done it. He (Jared Johnson
> > solomon@futureks.net) has applied to join Debian but that might take
> > a while. I agreed to sponsor the package for him until that
> > happens. I intend to upload it later tonight after I've checked it
> > and rebuilt it.
> 
> A check of devel archives show this ITP of galeon
> [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0007/msg00865.html] and the
> following discussion of why galeon probably cannot be included because
> of MPL-GPL incompatibilties.
> 
> Galeon = GPL
> Mozilla = MPL
> 
> Until the Mozilla source (or at least Gecko) is released under the
> dual GPL/MPL license as promised it's probably not kosher to upload.
> As IANAL, you should bring this up to debian-legal.
> 

This is a non issue, galeon changed its license to be Gnu GPL with an
 exception

Frank aka Myth

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