Re: Need advice: Package has a restrictive non-free modified MIT license

Luke W Faraone <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:47:22 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21/07/2025 17:50, Aryan Karamtoth wrote:
> I was also suggested by people on debian-mentors to consider adding it 
> to non-free sources but it wouldn't make any sense for a python library 
> to be a non-free package when the sole purpose of it is to be used by 
> other dependent packages which might be free.

You always have the option of packaging it in non-free and placing the 
other dependent packages in contrib.

Cheers,
Luke Faraone
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