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Re: Section for a new package



On Thursday 30 of June 2005 12:13, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for database
> design.  It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to compile.  I've read
> the policy doc, but am still confused.  Is this contrib, non-free, or
> not suitable for inclusion in Debian?
>
> http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/index.php

I had the same question some time ago on debian-legal@lists.debian.org. Try to 
use google, I don't remember when.

The main problem are non-free Kylix libraries (*.so files). Some of them are 
reditributable, some of them are not. Please note, DBDesigner needs some 
drivers to run.

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