Why are some OSS packages listed as non-free?

[Reinhard Tartler]

Bart Genuit <bartgenuit at gmail.com> writes:

> When I lookup Xara Extreme using dpkg-query, it is listed under
> non-free/graphics, while their website states it is OSS?

you can read the copyright statement of the package here:
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/x/xaralx/xaralx_0.7r1785-2ubuntu1/xaralx.copyright

short: you have to consider the licenses of all files inside the source
package. It seems that there are some file that must not be used in
commercial applications which renders the whole package non-free.


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