(On my phone) The real question is it less *distributable*? If its GPL and contains things *not* in preferred form, I'd say yes, that would be less distributable, since its a GPL violation and results in breech of license - which means we can't distribute.
My 2 cents (as a DD), Paul On Sep 21, 2013 6:18 PM, "Russ Allbery" <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org> writes: > > This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > > >> Alioth already hosts non-free packages (such as packaging repositories > >> for Debian packaging for the non-free suite). I believe that the > >> current understanding is that Alioth and its associated systems, such > >> as the Git repository host, are not official debian.org systems in that > >> sense, although they are in the debian.org domain. > > > I don't think this has been explicitly discussed and agreed to, I think > > this has just sort of happened and not been explicitly stopped. I also > > think that, largely, the result of that lack of process is OK, because > > people involved in Debian software development are largely sensible > > and/or largely want to do the right thing. > > To take an example that's close to home, the NVIDIA driver packaging is > hosted on Alioth (and has been from before I was involved with it). > > I think it is quite unlikely that any of the R packages that Charles is > working on are less free than the NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877ge97rat....@windlord.stanford.edu > >
