Re: Contrib Copyright Review
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Most of the remainder had GPL licenses. But I was shocked to find that
> most had *only* GPL licenses. If that was really the case, then these
> should go in main.
No. There are several reasons why a GPL-ed package may not meet the criteria
for main.
[kde*]
> lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb
> ddd-dmotif_2.2.3-2.deb
Depends on a non-free library (-> cannot be built with packages in main).
> ddd-smotif_2.2.3-2.deb
Cannot be built with packages in main.
[gstep-*]
Needs a newer ghostscript than the free one in main. GS 4 has been freed,
but that was too late to get it into main.
Ray
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