On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 00:49:33 +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Hi, > > In order to fix #692615, which is related to the MBF by Ansgar about > JSON.org's license, upstream has very swiftly responded by replacing the > code with the offending license by a different JSON lib. > > The cherry-picked commit in question would be this[0] and it applies to > the version in wheezy (and sid). Would this be accepted for wheezy? > The only other option I currently see, would be moving to non-free. > The other option would be tagging the bug wheezy-ignore and do the replacement in jessie. (I'm not saying that will happen, just that it's an option.) > Assuming it's acceptable, would a repack be necessary to get rid of the > problematic source, or would patching suffice? AFAICS, the license issue > applies to running the code, as opposed to simply shipping unused > source, so I would guess the latter. > The DFSG applies to the source, so you'd have to repack. Cheers, Julien
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