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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kivio and debian (non-free stencils)
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-22 22:28:41
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:23:33PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I just received the following debian bug report for kivio.  The 
> submitter has made a good point, and it indeed seems the correct thing to do 
> is to move kivio out of debian/main and put the default stencils in 
> debian/non-free and kivio itself in debian/contrib.
> 
> Anyway, I'm posting this note to koffice@kde.org in case the submitter or 
> myself have made a misinterpretation and kivio can in fact stay in main.  
> Thoughts are welcome.
> 
> (For those who don't do debian, main has all the free software compliant 
> stuff, non-free has non-compliant stuff and contrib has free stuff that 
> depends on non-free stuff.  The "official" debian release is everything in 
> main and nothing more, since non-free comes with various [package-dependent] 
> redistribution restrictions).
 
The kivio stencils recently have been re-licensed and are now available under
the terms of the BSD license. You can see this by the existance of the LICENSE
file in the stencils subdirectory and by the license statement in the stencil
xml documents.

Bye,
 Simon

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