[php-maint] Bug#692613: php5: non-free files in upstream tarball ("The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

Ondřej Surý ondrej at sury.org
Mon May 13 10:06:07 UTC 2013


But my point is that it's not illegal to distribute those source files
per se, it's just not permitted to use the "software" for Evil.

And since we will not be using those source files, it seems to be ok
to distribute them as part of upstream tarball. But IANAL...

Ondrej

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>
>> Would it be OK to distribute those source files ("no-evil") and not
>> use them to compile the extension?
>
> Source packages are part of main too and thus should not contain non-free stuff.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise



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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>



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