* Paul Hampson: > As I understand it, the issue is that anything in the Debian > archive is considered to be distributed with Debian, and so > the GPL's exception for libraries that come with the OS > doesn't apply since the application also comes with the OS. > (In GPL's terms, the OS comes with the application) > > However, non-free is not part of Debian (as per the social > contract) so it would be OK to put GPL'd programs that > depend on OpenSSL into non-free?
I suppose, that in the GPL sense, non-free *is* part of Debian.
