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Re: policy wrt distribution of modified binaries



On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, joost witteveen wrote:

> >  I don't understund why do people consieder that a piece of software can
> > satisfy the DFSG and provide no source. I think that binary-only software
> > is *much* more non-free than gnuplot or cygwin32.
> You severely misquote me here!
> I didn't say qt satisfied DFSG, I just said qt can probably be
> moved to contrib, from non-free. Still it can of cource never
> satisfy DFSG, and should never be in main with the current
> licence.

 I agree. Sorry, I didn't mean that you were wrong... I just wanted to say
that and quoted without sense.. =)

 What I think is this:

 Why are we considering that abuse is freer than qt or java? I can accept
that we shouldn't read each license and take the responibility for
deciding which one is distributable, but... we are already doing this
saying `Hey, CD vendors, you may distribute everything that its in
main or contrib!'. But there are soft in non-free that is _obviously_
freely distributable (java, qt, etc.) and is freer than any binary-only
software (java should probably be considered binary only too) and we 
should encourage their distribution on CDs for our users convenience.

 Again, these are just some things I wanted to say.. I'm not saying this
specifically to you.. =)

-- 
Nicolás Lichtmaier.-


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