Re: WARNING: Crypto software to be included into main Debian distribution
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- Subject: Re: WARNING: Crypto software to be included into main Debian distribution
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:11:18 -0500
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Steve Langasek wrote:
> These two situations seem quite analogous to me.
Seems like quite a stretch to me.
> Does placing either condition (monetary compensation, or warranting
> that they're not planning to destroy the Earth) on access to
> particular mirror sites violate the licenses of software contained in
> Debian's main archive? If so, what licenses?
No, of course not. If it did, they'd not be DFSG free licenses. Consider
that a large number of CD vendors place *gasp* restrictions on access to
their mirrors of debian. You have to send them money and then they send
you the bits.
--
see shy jo
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