Hello debian-mentors, I would like to know what I should do about this email I received from the maintainers of a upstream package I would like to package.
I understand his reasons for not supporting third-party package. I won't pull their arms into changing the way they release updates. I just think users would benefit from having this package integrated with their favorite common lisp environment. Getting that software to work has been quite painful to me without a Debian package. I replied to him saying that I would think about going on without their explicit support, but I don't really like doing that. I also suggested him that it was doable to build a package that builds a package using freshly downloaded sources. I'm looking for opinions on that issue and especially on the last point. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Packaging ACT-R] Date: May 18, 2005 01:59 pm From: Dan Bothell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:06 PM -0400 John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: Packaging ACT-R > From: François-Denis Gonthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, May 17, 2005 6:37 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi, > > I posted a message about packaging ACT-R for Linux distributions some > weeks ago but go no answers of any kind. > > So I decided to contact whom is usually said to be the author of the > software I would like to package. > > I would like to know who is the person that could answer more specific, > technically and legally speaking, questions about packaging ACT-R for the > Debian Linux distribution (or any other Linux distribution for instance). > I know the software is licensed under a the GPL so there shouldn't be > any problems, but I think that documentation and tutorials are worthy of > being packaged as well. > > François-Denis Gonthier > Debian Project Contributor My name is Dan Bothell and I work for Dr. Anderson as the programmer and maintainer of the ACT-R materials. You are correct in that the license for ACT-R allows you to package and distribute the source code however you want. However, because we often update the system, to prevent any issues with version differences we do not support any distributions other than the ones obtained from our web site and prefer that people only acquire the software directly from us. The tutorial materials (unit texts and models) are not distributed under the GPL and may not be included in any distribution you make available. We appreciate your interest in ACT-R, but can not support your effort to redistribute it. If you do distribute the materials, we ask that you please indicate that it is not an official distribution and indicate that one can get the official distribution from the ACT-R web site. Thank you, Dan -------------------------------------------------------
