Re: netscape?
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 03:12:06PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 06:30:01AM -0500, Jeramy B Smith wrote:
> > > why is that LinuxPPC has the latest netscape communicator
> > > up and running but Debian does not?
> > >
> > > Sergio
> >
> > I thought it was because Netscape 3,4 aren't totally free. Maybe 5 will make
> > the Debian requirements.
>
> Debian has several different distributions. main, contrib, non-free
> and non-US. The main distribution only allows Free Software as
> defined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines
> (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). contrib and
> non-free are "not part of the Debian system, although it has been
> configured for use with Debian." Seems a pretty thin distinction to
> me, but at least the line is there.
>
> Anyhow, stuff like Netscape, which is just free beer, goes into
> non-free. Mozilla's (Netscape 5) NPL license allows it to go into the
> main distribution. They're both currently in the Powerpc distribution
> under non-free/web and main/web respectively. Mozilla is at M8
> (current milestone), Netscape is at 4.6 (looks like pieces of 4.61 are
> there). I don't know what the current version of Netscape is, but
> something tells me it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
PowerPC 4.61 is much better than 4.6. It's not packaged yet. I spoke
to the maintainer twenty seconds ago, and he's looking for it now.
> I wonder, does MySQL's "Its free unless you're using Windows" license
> fail the "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"?
Yep.
Dan
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