Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply.
On 05.02.2025 08:44, Michael R. Crusoe wrote: > > > On 04/02/2025 21.26, Håvard F. Aasen wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> Two weeks ago you made an upload to coinutils [1], there you closed the >> bug 1068745 [2]. > > Hey Håvard, > >> >> You closed this bug by introducing unlicensed files into the package. I >> wrote to you in the bug report and asked for an explanation, I haven't >> gotten any. >> >> I would still like to know why this was done and what can be done to >> rectify it. > > Despite those files previously being in the archive, upstream now recants > previous license statements. > > So someone should revert my changes. Do you have any thoughts on who this "someone" should be? > COIN-OR related packages that need those data files to run their tests will > need to be updated to skip the tests. It would be nice if we added a way to > manually download the data and run the tests without redistributing the data. > >> I consider unlicensed files to be a serious issue in packages in Debian, >> though, I would like to be proven wrong about the license issue. > > Me too, but it seems we can't use them, as you previously pointed out. Mea > culpa. > >> >> d >> Regards, >> Håvard >> >> [1] >> https://tracker.debian.org/news/1608040/accepted-coinutils-21111ds-3-source-into-unstable/ >> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068745 >
