On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:58:37PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > Hello, all mentors! > > Please clarify for me, in which section should go a GPL-licensed package, > which is quite unusable without (but technically not Depends on), er, > obscure blobs of data, usually gathered by a way of sniffing data flow > between a proprietary application and a hardware device, and then just > repeated as is? Sounds like "contrib" to me. Packages in "main" should be free in that they can be used and changed without (much) limitations. Technically that means The source must be free, and also all dependencies and build-dependencies must be free. While technically those blobs of data aren't in "non-free", they surely are non-free, and should be treated as a non-free dependency IMO. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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