[LUG.ro] Re: Desmitificando GNU

[Federico Wiecko]

Debian mantiene en su distribucion official paquetes que son free software (no 
necesariamente GPL, aunque la mayoria lo son). También existen secciones de 
paquetes extras clasificados como contrib y non-free pero quedan a criterio 
del usuario agregarlas o no ya que no son parte de la distribución oficial.

Mas info al respecto  (extraido de 
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install)

The Debian project, as a pragmatic concession to its users, does make some
packages available that do not meet our criteria for being free. These 
packages are not part of the official distribution, however, and are only 
available from the contrib or non-free areas of Debian mirrors or on 
third-party CD-ROMs; see the Debian FAQ, under "The Debian FTP archives", for 
more information about the layout and contents of the archives.

Many of the programs in the system are licensed under the GNU General Public
License, often simply referred to as "the GPL". The GPL requires you to make
the source code of the programs available whenever you distribute a binary 
copy of the program; that provision of the license ensures that any user will 
be able to modify the software. Because of this provision, the source 
code^[1] forall such programs is available in the Debian system.

There are several other forms of copyright statements and software licenses
used on the programs in Debian. You can find the copyrights and licenses for
every package installed on your system by looking in the file /usr/share/doc/
package-name/copyright once you've installed a package on your system.

For more information about licenses and how Debian determines whether software
is free enough to be included in the main distribution, see the Debian Free
Software Guidelines.

Slds.

On Thursday 04 August 2005 22:39, Oscar Robles wrote:
> Es  sabido (y si me equivoco me corrigen) que Debian es 100 % soft GNU,
> así que si Ututo cumple similares condiciones, ya serían dos.