[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Debian's options

[Felix Geyer]

On 29.05.2013 18:41, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:07:13PM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> Hmm. I did not know of those BIOS news.
>>
>> What are Debian's options ?
> [...]
>> Any other options, that I forgot ?
> 
> http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Open_Watcom_Public_License
> 
> It's some rather complex lawyerese, but I can't see anything obvious in
> that license that would make it unsuitable for main. So, one other
> option would be:
> 
> * Someone packages OpenWATCOM for Debian, virtualbox build-depends on
>   that package and is moved back to main, everyone is happy?

I doubt ftpmasters will be happy with that.

See the following discussions about the freeness of the license:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376431
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00007.html

Regards,
Felix