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Re: MPL license



On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:04:50 -0800 (PST) Walter Landry wrote:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > * Joerg Jaspert:
> > 
> > > So, I have some packages in NEW that are MPL only licensed. Whats
> > > the current way to go? Reject, accept?
> > 
> > Accept.  Debian currently distributes quite a few packages licensed
> > under the MPL.
> 
> Quite a few?  What packages are those?

I'm curious too: I would like to have a list.

> 
> > I'm not sure if it makes sense to revert that decision at this
> > stage.
> 
> It is never too late to fix bugs.

100 % agreement.
A piece of software released solely under the MPL license does not
comply with the DFSG, so every such package in main is a bug that should
be fixed.

Or are we going to have a GR to declare the MPL DFSG-free? grin!  :-|

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