Debian Free Software Guidelines
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html
"Every package in /main/ and /non-US/main/ must comply with the DFSG
(Debian Free Software Guidelines)."
Specifically for your X question,
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/testing/2004/05/msg00042.html
it seems that the dfsg packages are what Debian would consider "free"
software.
scott
Paul M Foster wrote:
>I just noticed that many Debian packages now include "dfsg" in the name
>of the actual .deb files. What is this? A search of the Debian list
>archives turns up more non-useful data than I can shake a stick at, and
>google isn't any better. Does this have something to do with Debian's
>complaints about X's license?
>
>Paul
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