[CLUE-Tech] Re: [CLUE-Talk] Upcoming Oracle presentations question

[Keith Hellman]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:01:06 -0700
> Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> 
> > I still want to know why they don't officially support Debian Linux.  
> > (At least the "stable" branch.)
> > 
> 
> I didn't think Debian would have anything to do with any software that
> isn't 100% true blue Richard Stallman favored gpl licensed open
> software? At least they've made those noises in the past.

My understanding is that is can't be in stable.  Oracle could certainly
support a 'non-free' package (at least I think that's the one).  See #5
of the Debian social contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract)

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