Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> >The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian
> >package itself, at most an installer.
> As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license
> is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html
I don't think this license satisifies the DFSG, but you're better off asking
debian-legal.
> Redistribution is explicitely authorized if not-for-profit in the
> license, which makes it not free. Couldn't it be a non-free package?
> I think it would not change much the structure of the package to make it
> an installer. Is it necessary per Debian policy? Could it be in main then?
Eh, no, that isn't quite how it works. Better check the Debian Policy
Manual:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
It explains it a lot better than I could :)
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