Re: Unlicensed files uploaded to team package
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
On 05.02.2025 08:44, Michael R. Crusoe wrote:
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> On 04/02/2025 21.26, Håvard F. Aasen wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
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>> Two weeks ago you made an upload to coinutils [1], there you closed the
>> bug 1068745 [2].
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> Hey Håvard,
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>> You closed this bug by introducing unlicensed files into the package. I
>> wrote to you in the bug report and asked for an explanation, I haven't
>> gotten any.
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>> I would still like to know why this was done and what can be done to
>> rectify it.
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> Despite those files previously being in the archive, upstream now recants previous license statements.
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> So someone should revert my changes.
Do you have any thoughts on who this "someone" should be?
> COIN-OR related packages that need those data files to run their tests will need to be updated to skip the tests. It would be nice if we added a way to manually download the data and run the tests without redistributing the data.
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>> I consider unlicensed files to be a serious issue in packages in Debian,
>> though, I would like to be proven wrong about the license issue.
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> Me too, but it seems we can't use them, as you previously pointed out. Mea culpa.
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>> d
>> Regards,
>> Håvard
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>> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1608040/accepted-coinutils-21111ds-3-source-into-unstable/
>> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068745
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