> note that there are no problems with DOWNLOADING gated sources. The > weird licensing is only a problem if you want to DISTRIBUTE it. debian > can't distribute any gated sources because we wont sign the distribution > license agreement.
I just grabbed a copy of gated from: ftp://gated.merit.edu/net-research/gated/gated-R3_5_5.inet.tar.gz (is that the right one ?) and found this in README.license -- Please note the Gated 3.5.5 software can distributed in source or binary form to any mirror sites. If you distribute GateD in a commercial product, please obtain a redistribution license at no fee from Merit, Inc. at: Merit GateDaemon Project 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C Ann Arbor, MI 48105 -- It strikes me that we are allowed to mirror the source, and possibly even a binary package, as long as we don't do so in a commercial product. So if we put it in non-free, there should be no problem. Depending upon how you read some of the other bits of licences, you might think that we can only justify distributing a pristine copy of the source tarball, in which vase you could go for the same approach as I used for qmail-src (which is a package that contains the .orig.tar.gz, .dsc and .diff.gz files, and a script to build them into a binary). Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .