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Re: The "free" debate (again) <sigh>

From: Thomas Koenig <ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> a) a program's copyright may allow only distribution of binaries
>    compiled straight from the original sources, without alterations or
>    bug fixes (Is there any package which does this?)
 
I feel this is untenable for Debian, as it prohibits ports and bug fixes.
The best example is Qt (and KDE, which depends on Qt). Ports outside of the
X Window System are prohibited, among other things.

> b) a program may allow the distribution of modified binaries, but only
>    the distribution of source alterations as patch files only
>    (Main example: gnuplot, on which the GPL'd octave depends, so we'd
>    have to remove both gnuplot and octave if we disallow this)

I don't have a problem with "b".

	Thanks

	Bruce
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