Re: [Fwd: C-Kermit 7.0 Beta.11 ready for testing]
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:10:00PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote:
> aa126@fan.nb.ca said:
> > Is Debian going to include Kermit in its next iteration, or is it too late
> > to include now? Notice Frank de Cruz' recent comment on licensing...
>
> It's still not DFSG compliant:
>
> According to the license:
>
> The source code may not be changed beyond any patches required for
> successful building and operation on the target platform.
>
> While this might make it palatable to something like RedHat, it doesn't
> make it Free (speech).
Is this identical to the problem Qt has (had)? Surely, you can make a
package for the non-free part now. Before, no package at all could be
made.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada
A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended.
-- brian moore
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