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* On Mattermost's licensing: The components of Mattermost are, technically, released under various open source licenses. However, Mattermost's licensing and trademark policy forbids redistributing patched versions of Mattermost without renaming the project, which does not comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This means, for example, that Debian will never be able to include a Mattermost server package.