Bug#110424: ITP: xv-3.10a - An image viewer and manipulator for the X Window System.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:40:45PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
>
> This program is a classic image manipulation program in X11.
> It is quite dated, but useful. It is currently in `stable' release,
> within non-free/graphics section,
> but it is absent in unstable/testing. Latest upload was in May 2000.
> I sent an email four days ago to the current maintainer for potato (Phil Troin)
This program can not be packaged. It was recently removed from the
distribution because of the restrictions in the license. The following
comes from the XV license:
"The software may be modified for your own purposes, but modified
versions may not be distributed without prior consent of the author."
We therefore cannot distribute modified binaries. This is one of the
many things keeping XV out of main, but would also seem to prevent us
from being able to distribute it in non-free. non-free packages must
still adhere to the FHS, and if we can't make the necessary
modifications to a program to make it adhere, then we can't distribute
it.
I'm sure there are more reasons. Check the debian-policy archives,
where you'll find some discussion on XV. I'm sure there's more
discussion elsewhere.
We should add XV to the list of "software that can't be packaged" on
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
Please withdraw your ITP.
noah
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