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Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)



On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:19:51PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:

> Free 
>   This isn't exactly "free software" in the GNU sense, nevertheless: 
>       the source is available for free
>              (binary versions are available for some platforms) 
>       anyone can use MMM for free 
>       anyone can freely redistribute unmodified source and binary
>       distributions of MMM 

Notice this last sentence - unmodified binary distributions. That will not
suffice for Debian.

> We can distribute it as a "non-free" package if we have 
> the "express aproval of INRIA", but without that, we can not even 
> distribute it, since the debian package could not be 
> "obtained by compiling the original source files".

Agreed.

cu
    Torsten


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