On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 07:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Dettbarn wrote:
> Chipping in my 2 cents here...
> 
> 
> 
> > On the "policy"/legal question of whether it's permissible to package
> > the internal open source in this larger source for the Debian project, I
> > have no specific opinion but it sounds complicated. You might
> 
> I do. Remember the GPL's mantra: "Free as in speech". The software should be
> available for anyone,
> without any obstacles in obtaining it. To me, it is clearly a violation of
> its own license.
That's not what the licenses, including GPL, usually say, no.

> Having to register to download software is not free software. It is open
> source. That is a difference.
No.


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