Comment 17 for bug 83118
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| Luis Villa (luis-villa) wrote Re: Some components are non-free | #17 |
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(Get the code!)
IANAL either, of course, even though I play one in class from time to time; since my name has been invoked I'll stick my head in.
Some questions/comments:
* is there a clear definition of what the requirements are for being in 'main'? I can't find one. Mark Pilgrim's argument assumes that for a package to be in main requires that all copyrighted content in the package must be DFSG Free. I can't actually find a definition of main, so I have no idea if this is actually true or not. (Depending on the answer here, one option could be that Ubuntu free-ness is redefined to mean 'DFSG free, except that trademark restrictions are allowed.')
* Rob, isn't there the distinct possibility that mysql is not correctly in main either? Or am I missing something?
* Mark missed another potential option- that firefox, without icons/trademarked strings, be distributed in main, and that a separate package containing trademarked icons/strings be distributed in restricted. This is effectively what Red Hat does with their trademarked RHEL and Fedora icons, I believe.
Anyway, it seems like without a little more information on those first two questions, this bug is a little muddied.