Packaging arc

[Klaus Reimer <k@ailis.de>]

Hello, 

I'm interested in packaging the File Archive Utility "arc". I'm not sure if
there is an official "owner" any more. A current source code (Last change in
1991) can be found at various locations on the net, i.e. in the FreeBSD
project:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/archivers/arc

My problem is this sentence in the Non-Free-license of arc:

  2) ARC may ONLY be distributed in its original,
     unmodified state.
     
But I have to modify the source to fix a Y2K error and to do some
adjustments to allow compiling on linux. Is there any chance to do these
modifications and distribute the package in binary form in the non-free
distribution of Debian? Or is the only chance to distribute it at all to
build a "source package" with the original source code and a build-script in
it?

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