On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:25:19AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > * Adopt potato postinst which applies patches at installation time to be > > in line with somewhat peculiar mirror license. > > I don't want to be nitpick, but if patches have to be applied at > installation time, then it's non-free. > > Am I missing anything? >
If the software has a patch clause, we require that modified binaries can be distributed. But this particular package doesn't have any binaries because it's a perl script. While I find licenses with patch clauses odious, they fall within the limits of the DFSG. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
