Re: RFS: libsbml

["Moriyoshi Koizumi" <moriyoshi@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

2007/2/6, Charles Plessy <charles@plessy.org>:
> Filename: pool/non-free/l/latex2html/latex2html_2002-2-1-20050114-5_all.deb
>               ^^^^^^^^^
>
> What is happening to a source package with build-dependancies on a
> non-free package. Can it produce a binary packages for main, with only a
> -doc package going in contrib? Do the Debian buildds have non-free
> enabled? (I doubt...)

Unfortunately, libsbml uses latex2html-specific scripted commands
which resides in libsbml.perl and libsbmlextra.perl and it seems we
cannot simply replace it with another tool.

According to the following post on l2h, latex2html is marked non-free
because its license term forces the distribution of itself to be done
without charge.

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/latex2html/2003-October/002453.html

So using it solely for building package doesn't look like an issue to me.
Probably I'm missing something though.

Regards,
Moriyoshi

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