Re: non-free but distributable packages and kernel firmware
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 02:59:11PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > 1) non-free-but-freely-distributable
> >
> > Which would hold all the files which are freely distributable, but fail
> one
> > of the freely modificable criterias of the DFSG.
> >
> > 2) rest of non-free
> >
> > Which would include all but the ones in the first part, and impose some
> > furter restriction on distribution.
>
> This sounds entirely reasonable. I'm not sure how much would be left for the
> second part, though, because Debian and its entire decentralized mirror
> network would need permission to distribute it, and how many things allow
> that but have restrictions on redistribution? :-/
Well, i guess the stuff like can't be on the same cdrom as some other
software, or such come into this category.
> Also, where do files with *use restrictions* ("You may not use this program to
> spam") go?
use restrictions are the resort of the user, we can't hardly do a thing about
this.
But i think that adding an actual field describing with various tag-words the
kind of non-freeness would be a better solution to all those problems.
Now, we only need to find someone willing to go through non-free and list all
those copyright problems.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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