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Bug#922965: Bug#923220: DFSG compliance concerns



Philipp Meisberger <team@pm-codeworks.de> writes:

> What about the java-package and DFSG? It is very similar to my package
> and also does not build a .deb from source but is contained in Debian.

java-package is not in Debian.  It's in the contrib distribution, which is
a set of packages provided alongside Debian for working with non-free
software.

This sort of upstream repackager, if it itself is released under a free
software license, is in general acceptable for contrib if someone is
willing to sponsor it.  (I haven't looked at the details of this specific
package.)

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


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