lha (Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 5, 1999)
At Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:49:25 -0600,
Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> wrote:
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> > > > Package: lha (non-free)
> > > > Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> > > > 48748 lha has no license
> > >
> > > Can't we remove the package if we don't get a proper license for it?
> >
> > lha is fairly old. i have some doubts that we can find upstream maintainers
> > to give it a proper license :-(
> Does lha really not have a license or was it just not included in
> the deb? I have the original gz file around here somewhere and all
> the text is in Japanese. I just wanted to point out that the
> developer of lha is japanese and for the most part all the lha
> releases were japanese language only for the documentation, in case
> someone may have overlooked that fact.
Hmm, I looked over lha's documents, but I can only found the followings
statement regarding to copyright/licence in it:
(from lha-1.14e/README.euc, my translation)
You can freely distribute on the Net, however, if you want to distribute by
other means (such as Magazine, CD-ROM and so on), contact to
tsugio@muc.biglobe.ne.jp before you distribute. Please include the
information about which media you distribute this. Even if it's impossible,
You MUST send me the information in the future.
Is this ok for /usr/doc/lha/copyright?
Anyway, we, Debian JP Project, are now contacting to upstream authors.
But, according to the author's web pages, his response might take more
than months....
Best regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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