Web page suggestion: add description of "multiverse" to the "Components" page
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Sun Nov 7 06:01:05 UTC 2004
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:38:09AM -0500, Warren Weckesser wrote:
> There is a nice description of the Ubuntu repository components
> "main", "restricted" and "universe" at this page
>
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/components/document_view
>
> but this page does not include "multiverse". (I think the page
> was written before multiverse was added.) Could the web master
> add a description of multiverse?
>
> Here is a possible description. It is just a paraphrased version
> of the question in the FAQ, with a link:
>
> The "multiverse" component contains software that is "not free",
> which means the license requirements of this software is not
> compatible with the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL link:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html).
The relevant terms are the Ubuntu License Policy
(http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/licensing/), which determines what the
project considers to be free software. The GNU GPL is only one example of a
license which meets these guidelines.
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- mdz
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