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Re: DFSG and assembler code



On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:36:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0200, Andreas B. Mundt a écrit :
> > 
> > To be able to compile the program with standard tools, the
> > pre-compiled code of the ROM-dumpers is included in the source.  This
> > code needs to be removed for DFSG reasons.
> 
> note that the DFSG do not imply that we need to remove the pre-compiled code
> from the source package.  If 1) it can be redistributed; 2) its source code is
> provided; 3,4) its modification is allowed in practical terms; 5,6) there are
> no unreasonable restrictions on how to use it, and 7,8,9) its license is not
> awkward, then the work is Free according to the DFSG.
> 
> Nevertheless, our current quality standards for the binary packages is that
> each file must be rebuildable from source, and for the ROMs discused here,
> without the proper compiler in Debian it is not possible.  So in practice, this
> pre-compiled code can not be added to the binary packages, but I would like to
> stress that it is not because of the DFSG.

Such code is welcome in the contrib section, though.

And you don't even need to split the source package: sources in main may
produce contrib binaries.

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