Re: intent to package: mocka modula-2 compiler

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>]

> 	This has me confused.  Maybe you or someone else can help me clear
> it up.
> 	No. The backend generator (beg) is not close to DFSG-free .  From
> reading the docs (I didn't try to run beg, just unpacked it), I understand
> that beg generates the source code for the compiler from a description
> file called i386.cgd , which is included in the source for mocka (and is
> therefore covered by the mocka license, not the beg license). The author
> speaks of a time when the source code had been developed by hand and was
> eventually replaced by the output of beg.  The license for mocka clearly
> claims to cover the source code for mocka, which although machine
> generated, is human readable modula-2 code.

can you fix bugs without the beg ? if not, the program is contrib, but not 
free enought for main.

but if the beg is no longer necessary, not even to fix bugs,
then the program is fine for main.

andreas