PPA licenses

Matthew Revell matthew.revell at canonical.com
Thu Aug 23 14:51:45 BST 2007


Hi Matthew,

Matthew East wrote:

> Just starting to read the PPAQuickStart wiki page, I discovered that
> both on that page and in the PPA terms of service, it's necessary for
> one of the licenses listed on http://opensource.org/licenses/category
> to apply to the package.
> 
> What is the position for packages which contain material which is
> distributed under licenses which aren't in that list but which are
> still free?

[...]

> Can anyone clarify?

Thank you for the question. I shall raise this in today's Launchpad 
developer meeting and get an answer for you.

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