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

[Dylan <bob.dybian@gmail.com>]

Hi Andreas,

2014-06-15 18:57 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:

Hi Dylan,

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:17:16AM +0200, Dylan wrote:
> > 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?

Hmmm, well, that's probably possible but not nice in any case.  You
should definitely teach upstream to use FreePascal and explicitly ask for
permission to distribute the binary (and add this to the copyright file).

If you agree, I will continue to work on non-free package and I will ask upstream permission to distribute the binary. On the other hand, I will try to find a way to compile libOpenBUGS.so on Linux to transfer the package from non-free to main repository.

Best regards,

Dylan