Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> On 2004-07-24 12:13:08 +0100 "Parsons, Drew" 
> <ParsonsD@knox.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > After debian-legal goes to all the trouble of determining whether some
> > licence is free or not, it would be useful for their decision to be
> > displayed, so others can easily see the decision later, without 
> > having to
> > waste time searching through the mailing list.
> 
> debian-legal (should?) consider software being packaged for debian, 
> not just the licence

No, Debian should look at licenses, including any riders.  What a
package does should have no bearing on the analysis.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu