[Pkg-electronics-devel] Hello from a new member and RFS: arduino

[أحمد المحمودي]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:02:38PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> That said, there may be some political reason(s) that we don't want to team 
> maintain non-free packages, e.g. because we are using the "Debian" name as 
> part of our team, etc. Or perhaps there are rules antagonistic to development 
> non-free projects using alioth resources (mailing lists, git, etc) -- I 
> haven't checked.
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I've just on #alioth (on OFTC network), I got this answer:

17:48 <Lo-lan-do> Hm.  If they're redistributable, I guess there 
shouldn't be a problem, although I'd still like to know exactly what 
makes them non-free.

when I asked specifically about Eagle, the answer was:

17:56 <Lo-lan-do> It looks fine too, insofar as proprietary licenses can 
look fine.



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