Hi, our package msv-xsdlib [1] has been refused even from non-free due to license issues. Hence I've contacted the upstream developer (from Sun) and got the answer below. As I understand from different discussions that the CDDL license in critical in regard to "freeness", I have some questions: 1. will a CDDL license allow us to put the package at least into non-free? 2. will a CDDL license allow us to put the package into main/contrib? 3. if answers to 1 and 2 are negative, any idea what might be an alternative? Background of question 3 is that someone on the list might have an idea which other license could be acceptable to Sun (and I might suggest it to the developer). Any other inputs/recommendations are of course welcome in these difficult times! Thanks a lot, Eric [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296643 ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib From: "Kohsuke Kawaguchi" <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi@Sun.COM> Date: Tue, September 5, 2006 19:23 To: "Eric Lavarde" <Eric@lavar.de> Cc: kohsuke@dev.java.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Lavarde wrote: > Hello Kohsuke, > > a while ago, and you probably don't remember it, I asked you about the license of the xsdlib library (see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296643). > > It took some time but Arnaud Vandyck and myself tried to get the package into Debian, but failed due to license issues. > Could you please have a look at the attached emails, and tell me if you're able to fix the problems flagged by the Debian team? We would really appreciate your support, as your library is necessary to us (e.g. for FreeMind, http://freemind.sf.net/). I'll see if can change the license to CDDL. Will let you know once that's done. -- Kohsuke Kawaguchi Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi@sun.com -- You don't need to CC me on debian-java, debian-mentors and pkg-java-maintainers. Please CC me on other Debian lists.
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