PPA TOS and license requirements

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Reinhard Tartler:
> Can you please elaborate why PPA should emphasize on 'free' software?
> 
Presumably, the PPAs have been created to further the objectives of
Canonical/Ubuntu, which includes creating and distributing free
software (as opposed to non-free software). So why should that
freely-useable infrastructure be available to everybody?

> Or in the other way, what's wrong with distributing software like
> the NX-Client, which is unmodifyable, but freely redistributable and
> useful software?

So is any closed-source free(-as-in-beer soft)ware.

If you need to, nobody prevents you from building and distributing it
yourself. A build environment is easy to set up, and -- if you don't
have the right hardware -- qemu is free.

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