Hugo Rabson wrote: >Hector has already taken it upon himself to try to solve part of the source >of this philosophical incompatibility between Debian and Mondo. Kudos, >Hector! He is looking at rootfs, specifically - not what you're e-mailing me >about, but still a matter for concern within Debian because rootfs contains >precompiled binaries. I just thought I should mention that Hector is aware >of Debian's peculiar (meaning specific, in this context) needs and is >working with me to accommodate them.
Thanks for pointing this out. Upon investigation, I see that rootfs contains a precompiled copy of, among other things, busybox. Busybox is licensed under the GPL (see http://www.busybox.net/license.html), which means you *must* distribute the source along with it (say, on your website), or distribute a written offer to provide the source. Debian may technically be distributing the source because it distributes a separate busybox package. However, you're not distributing the busybox source -- you should. :-/ -- Debian QA: it seems clear that the mindi source package is also undistributable, or at least not DFSG-free. The mondo source package isn't OK either -- it contains the unsourced binary /restore-scripts/usr/bin/pico, which couldn't go in Debian even if it was sourced. Could someone do the honors of filing the bugs against ftp.debian.org? (I'm about to go on vacation.)
