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Re: RFC: would this unblock request be accepted?



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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