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Re: contrib/non-free policy

From: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>
> No. I have read qt's license now three times (I'm no lawyer and it's hard
> to understand the license :-) and I think it can go into contrib, since
> distribution on CDs is ok with them, even if it's done commercially. (They
> say you have to provide the copyright, etc., but that should be fulfilled 
> by our `.debs'.)

I've decided to drop "contrib" from the next official CD set, so you can
put whatever you want in there. The problem is that programs in contrib
that do not provide source don't really conform to many of the free software
guidelines at all - they implicitly prohibit modification and porting of the
program, etc.

That leaves a very small category of programs that do not go in the main
distribution but might still be put on the official CD - the ones that we
don't want to support for some reason - we might as well leave those off.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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