Are we able to redistribute debian-unofficial/non-free packages?

[Jerry Haltom]

It isn't for at least Sun Java. Hence why we are pushing GCJ/Classpath
so hard.

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:17 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:33:23AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> > I think to have his packages in ubuntu universe or multiverse would be
> > a great win. In any case, our users WILL ask for this packages, or
> > will even add debian-unofficial in their /etc/apt/sources.list.
> > 
> > My question is if we can distribute all packages of [2] in multiverse.
> > I'm really not sure, but I'd like to know if we have some licence
> > policy or some other paper giving guidelines about what we can
> > distribute and what not. I'm especially curious about the packages
> > opera, Realplayer10, Netbeans, Sun JAVA.
> 
> If we can legally redistribute the packages, they can go in multiverse.  It
> would be helpful if you could review the licenses to determine whether this
> is the case for each of these programs.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
>