On Jan 24, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[mrouted] >If anyone actually cares, I may be able to get this relicensed and am >willing to at least try. I'm mildly surprised that anyone is still using >this. Two weeks ago I opened #227146 but the maintainer did not reply:
The OpenBSD people managed to have stanford relicense it: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/mrouted/LICENSE OTOH DVMRP is useless in the modern Internet, so the package could just be removed from debian. So I suggest again to kill the package. Other non-free packages I know about: rar: this is needed to unpack rar 3.x archives. There is no alternative. unicorn: partially non-free ADSL modem driver. There is no alternative. mwavem: free driver, but it contains a binary firmware executed by the device CPU. If there is a consensus on the hypocrisy of refusing to distribute firwmares then I think removing the files and keeping the driver in main is the best solution. OTOH, it has been reported that the driver may be obsolete. -- ciao, | Marco | [4281 ca6C4eQ76UGbY]
