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[Benjamin Drung]

On Do, 2013-11-07 at 14:08 +0000, Daniel Lintott wrote:
> On 07/11/13 14:03, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Daniel Lintott <daniel at serverb.co.uk> wrote:
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> >> Hi MOTU,
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> The package in question here is GNS3, which sits in the contrib
> >> section in Debian.
> >>
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Scott K
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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!

You can add this piece of information. It's a wiki. :)

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer