Re: DFSG status of petsc
Hello, just a small remark (not CC-ing -legal):
Le 19/09/2015 10:46, Drew Parsons a écrit :
> The win32 binary is irrelevant to us, so it no more violates dfsg than
> a png image file would. Change its bits and distribute the altered exe
> if you want to, the licence doesn't prohibit that. Hey, why not edit it
> into the format of a png image file?
If you ever distribute win32 binaries, make sure you check them for
viruses (unless you know for sure that upstream does so).
It happened to me once that my ClamAV spotted a virus in a DLL inside a
published tarball of multiplatform Free Software; probably an infected
computer had been used for the build. It would be embarrassing for
Debian to convey such a virus, though it most probably wouldn't harm anyone.
Baptiste
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