Please give opinion about "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free"

2008-12-20 Thread Erik Schanze
Dear debian-legal folks, I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287. There was already a similar Bug 9 years ago that was closed, after one person from this list gave his OK. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/05/msg00162.html

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 20/12/2008 alle 08.50 -0800, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > Hi Pietro, > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:32:32AM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0]. > > > [...] > > > Could you confirm this license is OK with debian? > > > [1]:

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Pietro, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:32:32AM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: > I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0]. > The library was already packaged once, uploaded and then rejected by > ftp-masters: I tried to get the reason but didn't get a response from > (eventual) mai

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 20/12/2008 alle 00.22 -0800, Don Armstrong ha scritto: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0]. > > > > The library was already packaged once, uploaded and then rejected by > > ftp-masters: I tried to get the reaso

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Pietro Battiston wrote: > I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0]. > > The library was already packaged once, uploaded and then rejected by > ftp-masters: I tried to get the reason but didn't get a response > from (eventual) maintainer, neither from ftp-maste

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 12/20/08, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Hello debian-legal, > > I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0]. > > The library was already packaged once, uploaded and then rejected by > ftp-masters: I tried to get the reason but didn't get a response from > (eventual) maintainer, ne

Non free license?

2008-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello debian-legal, I'm interested in packaging Shapely, a python library [0]. The library was already packaged once, uploaded and then rejected by ftp-masters: I tried to get the reason but didn't get a response from (eventual) maintainer, neither from ftp-masters. In the end, I'm repackaging i