On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:55:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:39:50PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > A package was built by the maintainer for one architecture. > > Can I be sure, that the licence allows rebuilding it on another > > architecture? > > Not without reading the license, no. Apparently there've been packages > like this in the past -- ie, ones that you specifically can't build on > some architectures. No idea if there are any currently. A similar example was the xforms widget library. In that case, it wasn't that the license didn't allow recompiling, it's that you *couldn't* recompile because the source wasn't available. As I recall, xforms got built for ia64 in time for the woody release because Progeny contacted the authors, and were sent a copy of the source code to compile it on one of their ia64 machines. xforms has since been relicensed under the LGPL. -- G. Branden Robinson | My first priority in any attack is Debian GNU/Linux | to solve the problem - not issue a branden@debian.org | press release. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Steve McInerney
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