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Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)



On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:49:23AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:01:28PM -0500, Billy Biggs wrote:
> > David Starner (dvdeug@email.ro):
> > 
> > > > * That which is in main must be buildable and usable solely with
> > > > packages also in main (IOW, main is a "closure");
> [Starner's reply snipped]
> >   You have it backwards.  The intention of the statement as I understood
> > it is that all binaries shipped must be buildable.  Shipping source code
> > that doesn't build on Debian doesn't seem obviously non-free.
> 
> Correct.

Assuming that source code itself is free, of course.

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