Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

[Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org>]

* Luca Niccoli <lultimouomo@gmail.com> [2010-05-30 14:31]:

> I see a potential problem with this policy:
> say I write a DFSG-compliant media player, and I want to add the
> ability to download songs from Amazon; I then depend on clamz.
> But clamz is in contrib, so my media player must go into contrib, even
> though it's free and depends only on free programs, and it's not
> useful only in combination with non-free data.
> I guess the example would work better with a library, but I think it's
> clear enough.

You could suggest clamz und detect runtime if it is present. That would
allow your package to go in main and still use the funtionality of clamz
in case it was installed.

Yours
Martin