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Re: gnuplot

> So I see the following options:
> 
>   - change policy to let these packages go into non-free too
>     (This will result in a "less supported" non-free distribution. Right
>     now, non-free is maintained and as bug free as main, though the
>     programs have more restricted licenses.)
> 
>   - set up a new distribution for such packages, I suggest the name
>     "unsupported"
> 
>   - drop these packages from our archive (I don't think this is an option
>     in the case of "gnuplot", since it's widely used.)


I think it is an option, just do the same as we do with the netscape
package. We should be influencing gnuplot's licencing, not the
other way around.


But anyway, it should be possible to stick the "original" binary-only
in contrib:
  2.1.4 The contrib distribution

   Packages
     * whose copyright permission notices (or patent problems) allow only
       distribution of compiled binaries (and thus of which only binaries
       are available), or

  (in gnuplot's case, distribution of the binary-only is certainly
  allowed)

     * which are buggy and no longer maintained, but are preserved for
       backward compatibility, or

  (we could claim that we cannot maintain gnuplot)

     * which fail to meet some other policy requirements,
      
  (gnuplot certainly does!).


So in all:
  - we can still play around with gnuplot even with the silly gnuplot
    licence.
  - we shouldn't change our guidelines because of silly licencis
    other people have.

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