Felipe Augusto van de Wiel writes:
> On 03/07/2007 10:17 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
> > They can create a package which puts things in the right
> > place for debian, and recommend another 'qmail-debian'
> > package (which apt-get will automatically install) which
> > has symlinks from the places djb wants stuff to be found.
>
> Sure they can! But, there is just this //minor// thing
> called "Debian Policy" that packages must follow to be included
> in the main Debian archive.
Right. So djb's license allows them to do something they CHOOSE not
to do. Let's be clear here that the problem is not djb's license, but
instead Debian's policy.
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