Re: Mirror site (fwd)
dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org writes:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:12:14PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> > That scheme is totally consistent with the intentions of DFSG-free licenses.
>
> Unfortunetly, it's not consistent with many of the non-DFSG-free licenses.
> You'd be violating licenses if you did this with many of the packages in non-free,
> so if you want to do it for any of those, you should take a look at the license
> first. (Because of your description of your buisniss, it would probably be more
> feasible to just not include anything from non-free.)
I am remembering that several people around here have recently told me that
non-free is not part of Debian.
When someone asked what they meant by this, they clarified that
non-free is not part of Debian.
I guess that was what they meant. :-)
Redistributing non-free is definitely a tricky proposition, since things
are there for all sorts of peculiar reasons. I doubt that anyone on
debian-legal would be comfortable saying "You have a right to distribute
the contents of non-free" -- it would probably be more like "We hope
that the people already distributing non-free have a right to distribute
non-free".
--
Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> | And do not say, I will study when I
Temp. http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | have leisure; for perhaps you will
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