On 22 October 2010 at 22:40, Erik Schanze wrote: | Hi Martin, | | I'm still interested in having Afio in Squeeze, but I think | we had done all possible to find out the meaning of the | original author and have now a long discussion for this issue. | Unfortunately I have no news on this. | | I'm still convinced that Afio is Free software even if | the 25 years old license text is not perfect. All contributors | over the last years had the same impression. Afio was and is | intended to be Free Software.
Fully agreed. But it is what it is with respect to the difficulties with this unclear license. | It would be a pity if it will be removed after this long | live in Debian. non-free as a last resort? Dirk | I still hope for comments of other release managers or maintainers | of r-depends. | | | Best regards, | Erik | | | | Martin Zobel-Helas "Martin Zobel-Helas" <zo...@debian.org>: | > Hi, | > | > On Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 14:24:29 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: | > > This mail should be sent to the debian-release mailing list, copying in. | > > | > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: | > > > please let me kindly ask for setting squeeze-ignore tag for | > > > serious Bug #509287. | > > > | > > > Afio has a problematic license, but in my opinion it should | > > > not block the squeeze release. We collected all possible information | > > > and discussed the topic with different persons. | > > > | > > > I'm sure it was intended as free software, even if the license | > > > is not 100% clear about that, but hey, is was 1985 and the | > > > guys did more hacking and sharing in newsgroups than developing | > > > license texts. | > > > | > > > Over the years this changed and nowadays we have many licenses | > > > you can compare, you could get already done analysis and choose the one | > > > which fits best. | > > > | > > > Please do not let die afio. | > > | > > | > > Given that this had a lenny-ignore tag and has been open since December | > > 2008, I'm not happy giving it a squeeze ignore tag. Please note that | > > this isn't a comment on if the package severity is correct or not, or | > > the interpetation of the licence means that it's free/contrib/non-free, | > > it's just that I'm not happy ignoring this issue for yet another two | > > years. | > | > Given that we had no reaction since September 14 (more than a month from | > now), i am about to remove that package from testing in 10d from now. | > | > Due to r-depends I will need to remove some other packages too: | > | > * mondo | > * tob | > | -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
