RM: d4x -- RoQA; non-free
reassign 569648 ftp.debian.org
retitle 569648 RM: d4x -- RoQA; non-free
affects 569648 + d4x
thanks
Dear FTP team,
can you remove d4x ? At a first glance, it looks like distributed under the
Artistic license, but source file headers and discussion with upstream show
that he really meant much more restrictive conditions:
anx178 ↱d4x-2.5.7.1↲$ head main/main.h
/* WebDownloader for X-Window
* Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Koshelev Maxim
* This Program is free but not GPL!!! You can't modify it
* without agreement with author. You can't distribute modified
* program but you can distribute unmodified program.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*/
d4x has not seem to have been updated upstream since 2006. Its upstream homepage
is actually dead.
It has been removed from other distributions like Fedora (although for other reasons):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Artistic1Removal#d4x
Its restrictive license killed the fork that tried to revive it: http://www.d4x.net/
Le Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:52:53AM +0200, Arnaud GRANAL a écrit :
>
> I have bad news about this.
>
> Maxim is very clear about this issue:
> "You can distribute only unmodified sources." =(
(Where Maxim is the upstream author of d4x).
No other package depend on d4x or d4x-common.
Its popcon vote score is 100, but there are other alternatives, like uget or aria2
(reference: http://bugs.debian.org/382732)
For all these reason, I propose the removal of d4x.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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