On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > I advised Joel to look over the licenses of the individual programs in > non-free, and decide what he could legally include. I don't know if he'll > have space.
Since there has been discussion of splitting up non-free, how about creating a 'non-dist' for those that have distribution restrictions? Fortunately, there are not many, and if the package maintainer would include a line in the Packages entry like: mypackage-1.1.deb D-Restrictions: CD foreign Xfoo (restricted CD, foreign, or 'foo' distributions) or anotherpkg-0.1.deb D-Restrictions: none (no restrictions on distribution) This way, a grep of the packages (with standardized keywords) would give an instant list of all packages not allowed on CD-ROM. The '-Xfoo' flag is a hypothetical "extended" flag, here stating that distribution by method "foo" is specifically prohibited, but there is no recognized flag '-foo'. This could be extended to all non-free packages, with other lines, like: thispkg-2.0.deb U-Restrictions: commercial for restrictions on commercial use. Just an idea... | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW. | -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
