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Re: section issue



On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:34:08PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> I am packaging an application that currently links with a non-free
> library. Since I'm one of the developers for that application, I asked
> the lead developer if we could modify it to link with a free equivalent
> for Debian, so that the app could go in "main." He thought that would be
> a good idea.
> 
> However, even though the package will be configured not to link any
> non-free code, there will still be non-free libraries contained in the
> upstream tarball. Is this a problem? If so, do we need to release
> another upstream tarball that doesn't contain any non-free libraries?

basically, yeah.


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