On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:50:21PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > Oh, that. Yes it is a complicated situation, which doesn't get any > better by the fact that the Torque maintainers don't give a d*mn > about license issues. AFAIK several people have emailed them about > it and they never answer. The current Torque effort is the result of > several forked projects the history of which are pretty much lost in > the annals... in my memory at least :-) Wow, it seems the confusions keep going even when we have a common SVN for the torque packaging. Having several active branches doesn't help, though. I had been working on fixes to packaging in the 2.3.x_ubuntu branch, as I had been told (or so I thought) that it was the 2.3.x version that we wanted to upload to Debian, in order to cause as little disruption as possible to the Debian -> Ubuntu merge. Now I learn I should have been working in trunk. Should I merge my work there? > In Ubuntu, the torque package resides in "Multiverse" which > corresponds to the "non-free" section of Debian. Torque has it's own > peculiar license which tends to make the archive-admins nervous. It > is my conviction however, that Torque in practice is FOSS perhaps > even FLOSS. I don't agree that «multiverse» corresponds 100% to «non-free». I think there are several pieces of software in Debian main that are kept in Ubuntu multiverse. In any case, back when I started packaging torque and then joined the common effort, I looked torque's licence and couldn't find anything that could make it plain non-free. If my opinion counts, we should make our initial upload target main, and let the ftp team decide. We shouldn't go the non-free route just because we don't knw what they'll say. If the package is rejected, it's very easy to reupload with the changed sections. Thanks, Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi@sindominio.net jordi@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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