didierg wrote: not every package we want to make accessible is free in our sense (see the Debian Free Software Guidelines, below), or may be imported/exported without restrictions. Thus, the archive is split into areas[3] based on their licenses and other restrictions.
Debian maintient des dépots de logiciels qui ne sont pas libres (depot non free par exemple) ou qui ne sont pas libre selon le Debian Free Software Guidelines, (depot contrib).
La limitation ne s'applique pas à la distribution Debian qui est formé du dépot main mais à certains paquets en fonction de leurs licenses respectives qui sont maintenus dans d'autres depots.
cette séparation a pour but de permettre le partage de la distribution en respectant la loi et/ou les restrictions.
Thus, the archive is split into areas[3] based on their licenses and other restrictions.
The aims of this are:
to allow us to make as much software available as we can
to allow us to encourage everyone to write free software, and
to allow us to make it easy for people to produce CD-ROMs of our system without violating any licenses, import/export restrictions, or any other laws.
The main archive area forms the Debian distribution.
Packages in the other archive areas (contrib, non-free) are not considered to be part of the Debian distribution, although we support their use and provide infrastructure for them (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists). This Debian Policy Manual applies to these packages as well.
Autrement dit la distribution debian avec uniquement le dépot main n'est soumise à aucune restriction
