One of the main themes of the Fink project is careful respect for the licenses which software developers include with their code. Most Fink packages are based on software with one of the "open source" licenses which explicitly allow distribution in binary form (sometimes with the requirement that the source code must also be distributed). A few other Fink packages don't have "open source" licenses, but still have licenses which explicitly allow us to distribution pre-compiled binaries. My message was about the remaining packages, in which the license may have some clause like "educational use only", and which don't explictly permit distribution of binaries (and may in fact forbid it). Those are packages which we do not distribute in binary form.
But this causes confusion for users sometimes, since we distibute other binaries which *depend* on these. In this regard, we are less consientious than the Debian project, which separates out not only "non-free" packages, but also separates out all packages which *depend* on non-free packages. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
