On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Marco Franzen wrote: > Right: If something needs special permission, it is non-free and can at > most go into non-free. But since non-free is not part of debian (the > distribution), special permission only for distributing it *in* debian > would be useless in any case. (But that is likely not what was meant.)
Something can be in debian archives which are not a part of a debian distribution. For example, the bts, mailing list archives (including debian-private which isn't publically accessible), and so on. -- Raul
