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Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) was a community-maintained repository of Debian packages that could not be included in the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons.

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Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) was a community-maintained repository of Debian packages that could not be included in the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons.

Reasons for non-inclusion include copyright, license or patent restrictions, or geographical variations in legislation, such as: patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication restrictions on the use of certain types of technology, such as cryptography legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions offense which packages may cause to users that would make them unsuitable for Ubuntu's universe repository

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