[Pkg-anonymity-tools] Why is TBB not free?

[Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère]

Holger Levsen wrote:
>> I'm frustrated to see that TBB is not available for Debian. There is
>> only a torbrowser-launcher in "contrib", that is not a part of Debian.
>>
>> Why is TBB not free?
> 
> please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751366
>  
>> (Can I help?)
> 
> thanks! Working on open bugs is always a good idea, eg going through them, see 
> if you can reproduce them, if there are fixes (eg on github) or whether you 
> can come up with some fixes yourself!
> 
> btw, I plan to upload 0.1.9-1 to sid later today...


Hi

Thank you. However, I was not talking about TBB external binary
downloader but about TBB itself.
My question is: Why isn't TBB available in Debian?

Isn't TBB full source available?
Is there a license problem?
Is there no stable upstream releases?
Something else I haven't though of?

-- Nirgal
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