Powershell: Make Powershell Core suitable for inclusion in Debian

Created on 11 Jan 2018 · 5Comments · Source: PowerShell/PowerShell

Getting Powershell Core packaged by Debian would be great. However, beside creating a suitable source package, it appears that there are issues relating to non-free software. Please see the Debian Request for Package:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834756
for the relevant discussion.

I'm sure many people would be pleased if you could participate constructively in this discussion.

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lfourquaux

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We should remove or refactor engine dependencies on MMI (which includes DSC) so we don't have to distribute MMI.dll by default.

SteveL-MSFT on 12 Jan 2018

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I would also be interested in a clear statement about the licensing status as per the above discussion.

bergmeister on 11 Jan 2018

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I believe that as .net Core evolves, we could be completely under MIT, but that doesn't guarantee that other components will not appear under other licenses. So the Debian community will be forced to host this package outside of the Debian distribution.

/cc @SteveL-MSFT @joeyaiello