On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:48:34 -0400, Greg Ward <gward@???>
wrote:
>On 07 September 2001, Philip Hazel said:
>> Red Hat were unhappy with the GPL licence. They wanted a more BSD-like
>> one, ISTR (but my memory may not be accurate). I wasn't interested in
>> messing around with multiple licences.
>>
>> Debian, of course, insist on GPL, don't they?
>
>No, I believe Debian only insists on an license compatible with the
>"open source definition" (OSD). In fact, the OSD has its roots in the
>Debian Free Software Guidelines. It's no coincidence that Bruce Perens
>was involved in both. ;-)
Debian still uses the term "DFSG-free".
>Of course, you can still get non-OSD compatible software from Debian;
>it's just squirreled away in a directory called "non-free".
... but Debian still makes a point that non-free is not part of Debian
proper, but only distributed via the same channels. There was even a
motion of removing non-free completely about a year ago.
Greetings
Marc
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