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Re: license policy wrt modifications

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 
> > Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > 
> > >  - packages who's license restricts distribution of modified sources
> > >    (but distribution of modified binaries is allowed)
> > >    _may_ be included in "non-free" only.
> > 
> >    - packages who permit distribution of patches can go into the
> >      main distribution.
> 
> No, this is wrong! The policy manual reads in section 2.1:
> 
>    ``All packages in the Debian distribution proper must be freely [...]
> modifiable [...] in both source and binary form.''
 
But with our current packaging format, we don't need to distribute
modified sources, we distribute the originals and our patches. 
I think that the recent discussion had shown that permission to
distribute unmodified sources + patches + modified binaries 
was good enough for a package to be in "main".
 
-- 
Enrique Zanardi					ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna


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