On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am reading: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526092#20 > >> Could someone please let me know why exactly fop-hyph.jar cannot be >> included as a debian package ? LPPL is technically allowed in debian, >> right ? > > That bug was closed, so I'm not quite sure what you're referencing. Maybe > that it only allowed one to configure a path to the JAR and the JAR isn't > included in the package directly? > > In general, there's nothing wrong with including a JAR in a Debian package > *if* we have source and the source is under a DFSG license. A JAR is > roughly the Java equivalent of a compiled library, though, so you can't > just drop a JAR file into a package without having the source, except in > some very strange situations (such as if the JAR were hand-crafted and is > the only source available). Also, as a library, it's generally best to > package JARs separately and then have everything that uses them depend on > that package rather than copying them into every package and having to > update every package if they change.
Let me rephrase into: "If you do not manually install the fop-hyph.jar it renders the whole fop package unusable. It fails with error like: SEVERE: Couldn't find hyphenation pattern en" Therefore the only reason why someone would leave a debian package into an unusable form, is AFAIK because of a licensing issue. I could not find the usual ITP for OFFO where someone says: you cannot upload because of license. So I am asking here, if I am missing anything obvious before opening an ITP/RFP for OFFO... Thanks again, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
