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Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas



CJ Fearnley <cjf@CJFearnley.com> writes:

> However, I do wish that we could figure out how to write a
> minefield-avoiding third sentence for your paragraph on the main archive
> area that definitively asserts (what I believe we all know to be true)
> that Debian main is more or less a guarantee that the software therein
> is freely usable (and distributable) in the broadest sense.  That is,
> that Debian main is unreservedly usable for personal, non-profit,
> for-profit, or, in short, for any purpose.

> But I'm blanking on text that would work.

Isn't that basically what the DFSG says, though?  At least, that was the
logic that I was using.

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



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