Hello, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > No, it violates DFSG §3. So I can do nothing. > > Today I have tried to contact the old developer = author with his > > old email adress, but I think I get no answer. > > Thank you for this effort, it is necessary to try. Today I have received his answer mail! And he says only: "I think that D4X is not needed anymore" without informations about licensing. > Can you remove that part of the work, either replacing it with an > equivalent work under a compatible free license, or modifying the > function of the program to work without it? No, because it is the fully source code of this package. Thanks for your answers. After some searching I have seen the successor can be 'uget' aka 'urlgfe'. So there is only on step to do: Move d4x into the non-free archive. I hope the Debian QA Team will do it (the have done the last updates). Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn
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