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license policy wrt modifications

Hi folks!

In the last days, there have been a few discussions on debian-devel about
whether we are allowed to ship programs, who's license explicitely forbids
the distribution of modified source code and/or binaries. 

According to current "implicit" policy

  - packages who's license restricts distribution of modified binaries
    (even if we put a note somewhere or rename the program) 
    may _not_ be included in our archive at all (no matter which
    distribution),

  - packages who's license restricts distribution of modified sources
    (but distribution of modified binaries is allowed)
    _may_ be included in "non-free" only.

If there are no objections, this will be included in the next Policy
Manual and I'll present this to the public on debian-devel.


	Thanks,

	Christian Schwarz
	Debian Policy Manager

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