Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I am not sure that it is sufficient for you (personally) to be granted > permission to redistribute the software, as many other people and their > computer systems will actually be performing the redistribution. It may be > that the author must grant Debian (as an entity) permission to redistribute > the > software. >
I have taken permission on behalf of Debian GNU/Linux which I presume is sufficient. I regard it as satisfactory for non-free. Note that we don't claim that anyone can "freely" redistribute non-free in a distribution not labeled as Debian. So if say one of the glamorous derivatives of Debian were to distribute it under a different "label", they would have to take permission for that. IANAL, but the form of distribution is not stated explicitly. So redistributing within Debian in any form would be "legal". However, someone who has copied the files from Debian would not automatically have the right to redistribute it arbitrarily. Which is not in contradiction with non-free. Just my interpretation of what the "logical semantics" of the license ought to be. Thanks, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C
