Re: Bug#634015: Proposition to team-maintain m2crypto.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:17:04PM +0000, Philipp Kern a écrit :
> On 2011-08-10, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> >   ############################################################################
> >   # Matt Rodriguez, LBNL
> >   #Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California,
> >   #through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
> >   #(subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).
> >   #All rights reserved.
> >   ############################################################################
> >
> > Of course, this file is not used at build time and is not distributed in our
> > binary packages, but if I understand well our procedures, I can not knowingly
> > upload a package that contains this file.
> >
> > Hence the question to the other developers: is it necessary to correct m2crypto
> > source package in Stable ?  Not that I am interested to do it – you know my
> > position on these files is that they should be documented but ignored otherwise
> > (see http://lists.debian.org/20100124144741.GD13468@kunpuu.plessy.org ).  So
> > if the answer is yes, can somebody volunteer to do the work ?
> 
> All I can say is "wtf".  You knowingly accept that Debian distributes
> undistributable files?  It's not that it's a non-free license that still allows
> distribution, it's "All Rights Reserved".

In summary:

 - Somebody, not me, accepted the m2crypto package with this file in our archive.

 - I found this file and reported it.  I admit I did not realise immediately
   it was not redistributable at all.

 - You said ‘wtf’.

 - I contacted the file's author (whose new address was not easy to find), who
   confirmed it is intended to be resistributed under the same terms as the whole
   m2crypto package.

 - Problem solved.

I appologise for ranting about non-free files with the wrong example.  This was
inapproppriate, and I understand I lose credit for this.  But I do not think that
saying ‘wtf’ contributed at all to solve the real problem.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles