[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > Isaac To wrote: >> If you look at the license of non-free software in the Debian archive and >> read the copyright file of each of them, you can find that they allow the >> binary code to be distributed in a Debian CD-ROM to be sold. They become >> non-free because of things like source code not provided, commercial *use* >> (rather than distribution) restrictions, disallowing changes to the code, >> etc. > > Well no, you'll find all of the restrictions you mention, but also > restrictions on commerical sale.
> Restrictions on commercial sale violate point 1 of the DFSG, and such a > violation alone is enough to put software into non-free. So be very careful > before selling CD's of debian's non-free archive. Thanks, that was my understanding. And thanks for all the hard work you put in on Debian! Paul -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
