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Re: packages in contrib that are DFSG-compliant

On 31 Jul 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Bruce> From: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
> >> Maybe we should add in the DFSG, that to be Free(tm) a software
> >> must NOT depend on a non free software to be built or ran.
> >> 
> >> Or use the (recursive ;) definition: "A software is DFSG compliant
> >> if and only if all the other softwares it needs to be built or ran
> >> are also DFSG-compliant."
> 
> Bruce> I'd be interested in hearing opinions on this. If we wanted to
> Bruce> apply this criteria to "contrib", I don't think it's a problem.
> 
> 	I thought that this applied to all packages in the main
>  distribution anyway. If they depend on non-fre or contrib, the
>  packages have to be removed from the main distribution, and this is
>  recursively applied. I would think that that also applies to packages
>  needed to build the package.

I think the real "problem" is elsewhere. If a developer (not part of
Debian) want to release his software as DFSG-compliant, he'll read the
DFSG, make his package licence comply to it, and expect his package to be
released in the "main" debian section, although it may very well land in
contrib, since he was not supposed to know that his package must not
depend on non-DFSG software.

If the DFSG is uspposed to be more than an internal Debian document, I
think it should be clear about this dependancies issue for people not
familiar with the Debian internals. 

	Cordialement,

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