On Monday, December 05, 2011 10:51 PM, "Andrei Popescu"
wrote:
> On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:55:28, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> > "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to
> > work with the Debian distribution, but which require software
> > outside of the distribution to either b
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:55:28, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>
> contrib area:
> "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to
> work with the Debian distribution, but which require software outside
> of the distribution to either build or function."
>
> This definition does not say
Forwarded one relevant reply from debian-users to debian-legal.
By Andrei :
==
> What's your opinion ?
A somewhat similar case: instant messenger clients. Not long ago some of
the free (as in beer) instant messaging providers made incompatible
changes t
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:22:44 -0500 Clark C. Evans wrote:
[...]
> If such programs are GPLv3, I'd go further and say that Debian
> has no right to distribute the work since source code for the
> Whole Work is not included in the distribution (5c).
[...]
I don't think that the GPLv3 source code de
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:02:21 -0500 Clark C. Evans wrote:
[...]
> I'd say that any dependency on non-free remote service fails Debian's
> Desert Island Test [...] and as such, even if the remote access is
> free-of-charge and functional, the code using it should be limited
> to contrib.
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