Re: public lending right

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:00:18PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> No package in Debian can have such a clause.  See:
>> 
>> http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines
>
> However, non-free does include packages that do not meet those
> requirements.  Specifically, pine.

ARRRRGGGHHHH.  Non-free is *NOT* part of Debian.  It's important to
realize that because it may disappear sometime in the future.  Also,
AFAIK, it's not safe for distributors to include non-free on the CDs.
Hence the name non-free.

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