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Re: RFS: electric 8.10-1



On Sat Jan 09 18:15, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> I am looking for sponsorship for package electric version 8.10-1. The
> packaging bits are updated in pkg-java svn. I have also uploaded the
> source package to mentors.d.n. [1]

Some of the files (for ex
electric-8.10/com/sun/electric/database/geometry/btree/CachingPageStorage.java,
but I've not checked others) would seem to be LGPL 3+, not GPL 3+, which
is the only licence listed in debian/copyright. While this isn't the end
of the world (the resulting binary is GPL 3+, and you can treat all the
LGPL files as GPL) they should really be listed in debian/copyright.

More worryingly, some of the tests (eg:
electric-8.10/com/sun/electric/tool/simulation/test/Agilent34970A.java)
just say:

Copyright (c) 2004 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

which technically means we don't have permission to distribute them
(even if only in source form). Unless we can get a statement (from sun)
that these are also under the GPL I think they need to be stripped from
the source tarball (everything under 
com/sun/electric/tool/simulation/test looks like a good bet)

I have uploaded java-gnome now though.

Matt

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Matthew Johnson

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