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Re: distributing precompiled binaries



Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com> writes:

> Regarding the DFSG-compliance of this .jar, I've looked through the
> DFSG, and don't see where this could be a problem. DFSG mainly prohibits
> distribution of binaries without sources. This is a binary with the
> source, but cannot be compiled due to a non-free build-dependency.

That would mean it should go into contrib, which is for DFSG-free things
that can't be built or used without non-free bits.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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