Re: Debian package of OpenBUGS : issue with license of libOpenBUGS.so

Hi Andreas,

2014-06-14 20:08 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:

Hi Dylan,

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:45:24AM +0200, Dylan wrote:
> Dear Andrew Thomas,
> I began a package for OpenBUGS [1] as part of Debian Med [2].
> I have a question about your software:
> I can see on COPYING file that the libOpenBUGS.so is written in "Blackbox
> Component Pascal language, and provided as Blackbox compound document
> (.odc) files. [...] See each individual source file (.odc) for an exact
> license statement.".
>
> There is no .odc files in Linux source package, so what is exactly the
> license of libOpenBUGS.so, GPL3 as OpenBUGS or another specfique license to
> *.odc files?

Despite the open licensing question currently libOpenBUGS.so is a binary
without source as far as I can see. So the correct way would be to ask
upstream for the source and remove the binary from the orig.tar.gz which
we use for the Debian package (by using Files-Excluded in
debian/copyright).

I can not exclude libOpenBUGS.so because it is the core of OpenBUGS, its sources seems to be on sourceforge [1] but it was writing in Component Pascal which is impossible to compile on Linux for the moment. So, my plans was to package openbugs as non-free package which include libOpenBUGS.so as binary. It is impossible to do this in this way?

Best regards,

Dylan

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/openbugs/code/

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