On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:21:57 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-09 23:00 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote: > > None of the packages at D-M can be included in the regular Debian repos > > because of licensing issues that aren't compatible with the Debian > > DFSG. > > Nonsense. The packages at debian-multimedia are patent-encumbered or > otherwise legally problematic in many countries, and _that_ is the > reason why Debian does not (and cannot) distribute them. These legal > problems are orthogonal to the DFSG. In fact, D-M recently moved some packages to a non-free section because they did not comply with the DFSG, in particular because they were lacking source code. libdvdcss has is Free Software, but Debian still chooses not to risk the separate legal issues that might arise from distributing it. In some ways D-M is the replacement for the non-us section of yore. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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