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Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Ping



On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:54:36AM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:
[...]
> XaraLX is not part of Debian, it just happens to be put in a directory
> on our server called non-free, as a service to our user. An important
> difference :-)
> 
> This will get more important when we get to release Etch: non-free
> software does not go to on the DVDs and therefore get less user
> coverage. I'd really recommend freeing CDraw ASAP, so that xaralx can be
> in debian main before the next release.
> 

Hmmz, is there any legal/license reason not to put a precompiled package
of XaraLX on a Debian distro DVD? Reading libs/LIBS-LICENSE I get the
impression that this is not forbidden.

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