Bagas Sanjaya, le jeu. 20 juin 2019 20:16:08 +0700, a ecrit:
> 
> On 20/06/19 20.11, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > Quoting Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdo...@gmail.com>:
> > > Such ads is displayed only when users have Internet connection, and
> > > there is no way to patch ZZZ in order to remove ads (or we have to
> > > buy "pro" version which doesn't contain ads and adds more features).
> > 
> > So it's not free software anyway and does not belong to Debian main.
> > It might be suitable for non-free, but I wonder whether it's worth
> > the trouble to package it.
> > 
> Is it implied that all programs which contain ads are non-free and not
> suitable for Debian main?
> 
> But ZZZ hypothetical package licensed under DFSG-compliant license (such as
> GPL).

The concern here is "there is no way to patch ZZZ in order to". If there
is no way to make the program do what you want, it is not free.

Samuel

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