Le Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:17:04PM +0000, Philipp Kern a écrit : > On 2011-08-10, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > ############################################################################ > > # Matt Rodriguez, LBNL > > #Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California, > > #through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory > > #(subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of > > Energy). > > #All rights reserved. > > > > ############################################################################ > > > > Of course, this file is not used at build time and is not distributed in our > > binary packages, but if I understand well our procedures, I can not > > knowingly > > upload a package that contains this file. > > > > Hence the question to the other developers: is it necessary to correct > > m2crypto > > source package in Stable ? Not that I am interested to do it – you know my > > position on these files is that they should be documented but ignored > > otherwise > > (see http://lists.debian.org/20100124144741.gd13...@kunpuu.plessy.org ). So > > if the answer is yes, can somebody volunteer to do the work ? > > All I can say is "wtf". You knowingly accept that Debian distributes > undistributable files? It's not that it's a non-free license that still > allows > distribution, it's "All Rights Reserved".
In summary: - Somebody, not me, accepted the m2crypto package with this file in our archive. - I found this file and reported it. I admit I did not realise immediately it was not redistributable at all. - You said ‘wtf’. - I contacted the file's author (whose new address was not easy to find), who confirmed it is intended to be resistributed under the same terms as the whole m2crypto package. - Problem solved. I appologise for ranting about non-free files with the wrong example. This was inapproppriate, and I understand I lose credit for this. But I do not think that saying ‘wtf’ contributed at all to solve the real problem. Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110811234424.gd25...@merveille.plessy.net
