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Re: Clarifying METIS copyright



On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:14:13PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 12:08, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Eray, please be careful when representing Debian. A non-free program
> > cannot be part of the Debian distribution, which is by definition
> > only main and non-US/main. It can only be part of non-free,
> > which is an addon we provide for convenience only.

[..]

> What I meant in that email was, that permission to distribute was enough to 
> include it in debian non-free even if they wouldn't consider a license change.

Fine, but 'include it in debian non-free' does not make it part of
Debian as you suggested to the upstream author.

Also, please respect the Mail-Followup-To header I use in my email.
ie don't CC me.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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