On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:08:13PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 04-Apr-00, 17:27 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Unfortunetly, it's not consistent with many of the non-DFSG-free > > licenses. You'd be violating licenses if you did this with many of the > > packages in non-free, > > 1. Non-free is not Debian. :-)
Which is terribly useful to the guy who got assured that he could distribute the mirror of Debian, but is now being slapped with law suits because he failed to be completely pedantic with his question. > 2. I'm not sure this is true. Don't we have to have the right to > redistribute for a package to be in non-free? If not, how do we get away > with mirroring non-free? We have the right to distribute non-free on the net. A few of them may not have the right to be distributed on CD. Many may not be sold. Some (Alladin Ghostscript) may not be sold with some software in non-free. Some (POV-Ray) have have funky restrictions on how you can sell it on CD. Non-free is full of funky licensed programs that can be mirrored by Debian but have weird restrictions, especially where money changes hands. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU
