On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Mònica wrote: > Hello, > Hello, > I am trying to package bluej [1], a Java program, but I think there is a license problem. First have you seen the bug was merged with an other ITP [2] where more discussion are in progress. > This program uses a library that is not free (AppleJavaExtensions.jar). Apparently, the use of this library is only to build the MacOS version of the program. I think I could change the upstream source and achieve that the software won't be dependent on this library (now it is). But I don't know if it's worth to do it... > > Otherwise, the upstream source (orig.tar.gz) would include all this non-free software. > > Could this package be in main archive area or will it be considered as a non-free software, although I make this changes? If it is considered as non-free software, I'm not interested in packaging it... > > What do you do in this cases? What do you recommend? I think if you rebuilt a dfsg clean archive to replace the original archive and use it for your packaging then it's suitable for main (provided there are no other licence issue of course) > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585696 > -- > Mònica 2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587553 I'm not DD so you might want to wait for other suggestion, anyway I hope this helps. Best Regards -- Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.blogsite.org> http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <julien@silicone.homelinux.org> GPG Key ID: D00E52B6 Published on: hkp://keys.gnupg.net Key Fingerprint: E312 A31D BEC3 74CC C49E 6D69 8B30 6538 D00E 52B6
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