On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:56:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > So, is there any obvious reason why some proprietary software get a > > "installer" package in contrib instead of a debian package in > > non-free? For instance, why the non-free flashplayer does not get a > > true debian package in non-free, to benefit truly of the debian tools. > > The usual reasons are that they don't allow sufficient redistribution > for us to include them in the Debian archive at all, or that they don't > allow distribution of modified versions (including Debian packages > constructed from them).
An installer package could create a Debian package "on the fly"... I don't think this would break any licenses. It would also allow vrms to detect it as non-free software. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
