Re: {debian-legal} Re: Final Draft: Interpretive Guideline regarding DFSG clause 3
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:12:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> I think it's reasonable to judge that people who install a package
> shouldn't automatically get something with more restrictive conditions
> attached to it.
We don't have any such rule within main; for example apt-get installing
python-pmw (Python MetaWidgets, a BSD-ish licensed package) will also
install python2.1 on you, which has a more restrictive license (it has
some change reporting requirements).
If you find the restrictions are that bothersome, then it's probably
appropriate to just put the docs in non-free. That's what it's for.
Cheers,
aj
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