Le vendredi 13 août 2010, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : > On to, 2010-08-12 at 20:31 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: >> Non-free? According to the DFSG, are not they free? I cannot see any >> point of the DFSG that such a program, distributed both in source and >> compiled form, with a free license, compilable only with non-free tools, >> would infringe. > > There's at least two requirements for software included in Debian main: > > a) the license must be free according to the DFSG > b) all binaries in main must be built only from sources in main, using > only tools in main I do agree. This is from the policy. > To me, it sounds like you need to put your package into contrib, > including its binary packages, until you can convince upstream to fix > things so that they do not require non-free tools to build, or you > convince the upstreams of the non-free tools to free their software. I should rather strip the problematic file from the package, as it is only a minor component, that one can very well live without, and that is easy to install by other means. -- Tanguy Ortolo
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