Re: Bug#509287: squeeze-ignore for Bug #509287?
On 22 October 2010 at 22:40, Erik Schanze wrote:
| Hi Martin,
|
| I'm still interested in having Afio in Squeeze, but I think
| we had done all possible to find out the meaning of the
| original author and have now a long discussion for this issue.
| Unfortunately I have no news on this.
|
| I'm still convinced that Afio is Free software even if
| the 25 years old license text is not perfect. All contributors
| over the last years had the same impression. Afio was and is
| intended to be Free Software.
Fully agreed.
But it is what it is with respect to the difficulties with this unclear
license.
| It would be a pity if it will be removed after this long
| live in Debian.
non-free as a last resort?
Dirk
| I still hope for comments of other release managers or maintainers
| of r-depends.
|
|
| Best regards,
| Erik
|
|
|
| Martin Zobel-Helas "Martin Zobel-Helas" <zobel@debian.org>:
| > Hi,
| >
| > On Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 14:24:29 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
| > > This mail should be sent to the debian-release mailing list, copying in.
| > >
| > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote:
| > > > please let me kindly ask for setting squeeze-ignore tag for
| > > > serious Bug #509287.
| > > >
| > > > Afio has a problematic license, but in my opinion it should
| > > > not block the squeeze release. We collected all possible information
| > > > and discussed the topic with different persons.
| > > >
| > > > I'm sure it was intended as free software, even if the license
| > > > is not 100% clear about that, but hey, is was 1985 and the
| > > > guys did more hacking and sharing in newsgroups than developing
| > > > license texts.
| > > >
| > > > Over the years this changed and nowadays we have many licenses
| > > > you can compare, you could get already done analysis and choose the one
| > > > which fits best.
| > > >
| > > > Please do not let die afio.
| > >
| > >
| > > Given that this had a lenny-ignore tag and has been open since December
| > > 2008, I'm not happy giving it a squeeze ignore tag. Please note that
| > > this isn't a comment on if the package severity is correct or not, or
| > > the interpetation of the licence means that it's free/contrib/non-free,
| > > it's just that I'm not happy ignoring this issue for yet another two
| > > years.
| >
| > Given that we had no reaction since September 14 (more than a month from
| > now), i am about to remove that package from testing in 10d from now.
| >
| > Due to r-depends I will need to remove some other packages too:
| >
| > * mondo
| > * tob
| >
|
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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