On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:46:22PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Where could I find out why a given package is in non-US? Specifically, > I'm interesting in the following packages: > > gnomemeeting - stable/non-US/main - GPL Seems to be in sids' main. Maybe it just missed out on making the crypto-in-main transition before woody was released? It's possible some of the codecs it uses are patented in the US as well. > libopenh323-1.7.4 - stable/non-US/main - MPL Same again? > libpt-1.2.0 - stable/non-US/main - MPL Also links against OpenSSL, but it seems to be just a GUI library. Your best bet would be searching the debian-legal archives, and maybe asking there if you can't find previous discussions. Also check the BTS, there might be bugs about moving them into main already. -rob
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