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[Daniel Lintott]

On 07/11/13 14:03, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Daniel Lintott <daniel at serverb.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi MOTU,
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>> I was wondering if anyone can shed light on the how the decision is
>> made on whether to place a package in universe or multiverse?
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>> The package in question here is GNS3, which sits in the contrib
>> section in Debian.
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>> When the package was first introduced into Debian it was placed into
>> non-free but in 2011 was moved to contrib [1].
>>
>> Looking at [2], it would seem that the package should fit into universe
>>
> 
> If it requires something non-free it goes in Multiverse.  Multiverse is the union of non-free and contrib in Debian.
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> Scott K
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> 

Thankyou Scott

That's absolutely fine. It may be worth adding that to the wiki in the
Licensing section, as it was the one piece of information I could not find!

Daniel