Didier Raboud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you see a particular problem with requiring that? > Yes... > > If I am in a country where the usage of the "patented" repo is forbidden for > whatever reason, I could (legally) not rebuild the whole "main" myself.
"Usage" is generally not the problem with that software. For the case we're discussing here "selling" and in a broader, more concrete form "distributing" is. > And if I understand the DFSG correctly, for each package in "main", I should > be able to get access to the full source code needed for its build. This > could not be realised if I can't access to "patented" for legal > reasons. Wrong. The DFSG is about the lincense of the software, it does not say anything about patents. Moreover, the DFSG does not even talk about archive sections. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
