contrib is a funny place for it. Normally contrib means free software that depends on non-free software. In this case, it seems to have acquired the meaning of

contrib is a funny place for it. Normally contrib means free software that depends on non-free software. In this case, it seems to have acquired the meaning of free software has a license incompatibility with other free software. I wonder if we have heard the last of CDDL vs GPL. Technical solutions to legal problems don't work, just like GPL wrappers don't work (at least, that's what some lawyers say). If Oracle decides to make a stink about this, they still can. edit: Huh, apparently last year Debian actually got advice from SFLC about this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00...