On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +0000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is there any way to get information about what makes a package non-free,
Yes. Reading the license, and possibly the mailing list archives. > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? Yes. Potato's current "ssh" package is OpenSSH and is free. > And dnsutils - why on earth should I need non-free software to query dns > servers? dnsutils is built from the bind source, which contains non-free code from RSA labs dealing with secure DNS. I believe arrangements have been made with the ISC that will make / have made it possible for bind's source to go in main again. > In other words, a very brief summary of the problem (with a reference to > the license), a list of alternatives, and the possible problems you > might encounter with each alternative. This would be a useful list to have - perhaps you've found your way to contribute to Debian? Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
