On 29.05.2013 18:41, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:07:13PM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> Hmm. I did not know of those BIOS news. >> >> What are Debian's options ? > [...] >> Any other options, that I forgot ? > > http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Open_Watcom_Public_License > > It's some rather complex lawyerese, but I can't see anything obvious in > that license that would make it unsuitable for main. So, one other > option would be: > > * Someone packages OpenWATCOM for Debian, virtualbox build-depends on > that package and is moved back to main, everyone is happy?
I doubt ftpmasters will be happy with that. See the following discussions about the freeness of the license: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376431 https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00007.html Regards, Felix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org