Bug#393753: Commercial demo in Debian?
* Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> [061101 01:10]:
> Cc: info@codeweavers.com - please see below.
>
> 2006/10/31, Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I don't think it is appropriate for Debian to carry a commercial demo in
> >its archive, not even in the non-free which is officially not part of
> >Debian. Any other commercial program in the non-free archive is a full
> >program and not time-limited, in addition it will provide the right to
> >distribute it, if there is no distribution right the program will only
> >have an installer package.
>
> I respectfully disagree. :-) There is no rule against time-limited
> demos in non-free.
That's true, and I'm not even likely to propose a GR to stop it if some
DD decided to do it. I know that I will not make such a package, or even
spend the time to verify that the license allows us to put such a
package in non-free.
Cheers,
Baruch
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