Hi all, I'm facing a serious problem with the ArgoUML debian package. The next generation of ArgoUML (current development 0.15 and next stable 0.16) will use the mdr library: http://mdr.netbeans.org/download/daily.html
Which is an implementation of the JMI from Sun. As you can see in the web page, as a Debian Developer, I can NOT accept this (or these) license(s). Or maybe I don't understand it (them) well. So what I'm gonna do at the moment is not upgrade ArgoUML to the next release as it uses non-free libraries. You can argue that current ArgoUML is already using non-free software (non-free JVM needed), but it's already a problem! ;) The use of non-free JVM is a problem and a lot of users are confused they have to add another apt-source to have a JVM to run ArgoUML (or a lot of other java Debian packages), adding dependency to another non-free library will confuse more users. I don't think it's a good thing when you install ArgoUML, you'll not be able to run it because you'll have to download a separate library, not packaged, and you'll have to accept a non-free license. I'd like to have your comments on this, thanks, I did Cc: debian-legal to have a look at the license but I think it's completly non-free! The text is very long, I did not copy it here, but it's on the web site. -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `-
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