Document why worldwind is in non-free?

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr
Mon Oct 27 09:30:56 UTC 2008


Le lundi 27 octobre 2008 à 17:53 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:35:32AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I didn't know this URL. I updated the info about worldwind in the Wiki.
> > 
> > FYI, this is caused by the NASA Open Source Agreement which includes a
> > provision requiring changes to be your “original creation”.
> > 
> > See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
> > for more details.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> by the way, the Policy version 3.8.0 recommends to document these reasons in
> debian/copyright:
> 
>   "Packages in the contrib or non-free categories should state in the copyright
>   file that the package is not part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and
>   briefly explain why."
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
OK, thanks for pointing this out. I updated the package.

Sylvestre





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