On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > After 5 months in Incoming, mindterm was rejected from the US archive > due to possible license incompatabilities. The situation is pretty > unclear so I'd appreciate advice. [...] > ssh-1.2.12 --------------------> openssh > (free enough for openbsd) (BSD) > | ^ > | | > v (linked into) > libdes-3.06 ----------------> ssh-1.2.26 ---------> mindterm | > (GPL/Artistic) (mostly non-free; | > | DES is GPL/Artistic) | > | | > | | > ----------------------------------> openssl -------------------- > (BSD w/ad clause) My head hurts. :( I wonder if it possible to reconstruct the existing mindterm code base from all the known DFSG-free code using a recipe. This recipe could then be handed to the FTP admins. Or perhaps the consensus of debian-legal is good enough for the FTP team; it has been in the past. I wonder what the delta between Tatu's ssh 1.2.12 and 1.2.26 is, and how much of that affects mindterm. -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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