Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:49:50PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> The ipv6calc upstream tarball database directory contains a README saying:
>
> Because of unknown license issues, the database files aren't
> included in source tarball (cleanup by "make distclean"), but
> will be retrieved on "make"
>
> Thus my understanding is that
>
> 2. We're also of course violating the Social Contract by distributing
> software without full source.
Yes. Independently of licenses issues, it is not acceptable to download
data from the net when building a package. Packages should be buildable
from the source CD-ROMs.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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