Hello Charlie, Charlie Smotherman [2011-01-04 2:26 -0600]: > I am curious as to whats Ubuntu's policy on having *.swf files in the archive?
We (as in the archive admins) mostly stick to the Debian position and DFSG, with some exceptions like we consider GFDL as "free". >From a legal POV it's primarily a license question. Many "strict free" licenses like the GPL mandate that you distribute the "preferred form of modification" (aka. "source") for all files, which *.swf is not. For the same reason we reject GPL packages which ship PDFs without a source (like ODF or LaTeX). So if a package wants to ship an swf, it needs a "weaker" license like BSD or MIT. If it's GPL, it's not distributable at all. However, I expect that we still would put a package with just an swf into multiverse, as it still violates the "source available" clause of the DFSG. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
