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On Monday 27 February 2006 6:39 pm, Ben Goodger wrote: > If it doesn't have source code you won't get it into Debian. It won't get into Debian main - it can go into non-free. > They object to > the GPL in many ways: The DFSG does not object to the GPL at all. The GNU Free Documentation Licence is currently the subject of a vote about whether it complies with the DFSG or not but the GPL is perfectly acceptable. The difference here is that the GPL does not cover installation - free software can depend on non-free firmware in peripherals. It cannot combine non-free software into the GPL programme but this firmware does not do that. The firmware is remote, on a separate device. The GPL allows free software to use such interfaces (we'd be in big trouble if it didn't). A single Debian package is NOT the same as a single GPL programme. Often, the package is a subset of the GPL programme, sometimes the package contains several different GPL programmes. Some packages contain components with multiple DFSG-compatible licences. Debian controls what goes into packages. The GPL controls what goes into the programmes inside the packages but not all Debian packages contain exclusively GPL programmes. > I doubt very much that they'll allow a binary-only > driver in. main, no. non-free, yes. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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