Re: Fwd: Re: kdrill SKIP bug
Fabien Ninoles <fab@tzone.org> writes:
> Here a follow-up of my correspondence with Philip Brown, the upstream
> maintainer of kdrill. Phil want to distribute kdrill under a modified
> Artistic licence and his main concern is about redistribution of
> modified binaries. It seems to me a kind of "configuration is ok,
> but I want to control any other modifications".
If he succeeds in saying so in a license, it won't be DFSG-free.
> > > b) full source code [binaries optional]
> > > You may chose to provide source modifications, and binaries based
> > > on those modifications. However, the original
> > > source distribution must be present, in its entirety.
I think that would qualify as being barely DFSG-free. It requires that
pristine source goes on the binary CD images, but there is precedence
that Debian can do that in some cases (tetex-src).
I wouldn't expect Debian to approve of such a scheme unless developers
agree that the benefits of having the package compensates for stuffing
technically unnecessary sources onto the binary disks. But I'm not a
developer myself, so I really can't tell.
--
Henning Makholm
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