Ubuntu compatibility with Debian?

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Mon May 9 12:48:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:40:59PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> This is not true. The entire distro is (as it must be) GPL'd so I
> can fetch the sources and do exactly the same thing for that distro
> that you describe for Ubuntu.

Let me make sure I don't misunderstand you: it is *not*
true that Ubuntu or Debian are all licensed under the GPL.
They're not; Apache is licensed under the Apache License,
Firefox/Mozilla are licensed under the Mozilla Public
License, various libraries are licensed under the LGPL ...
check /usr/share/doc/[package name]/copyright for the
specific license.

The standard that Debian and Ubuntu use for inclusion into
their distros is whether the packages conform to the Debian
Free Software Guidelines (DFSG):
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

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