Bug#154312: Is mldonkey DFSG-Free ?

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:02:01AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Looking at mldonkey's source code, I wonder if it should be considered
> > as non-free.
> > There is a donkey/donkey.lam file, which seems to be in some sort of
> > portable bytecode, but it is certainly not an editable format, and I
> > won't qualify it as "source code".
> 
> That's it. I don't consider it as source code either.

Upstream web site (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mldonkey) reads:

"mldonkey, a free e-Donkey client"

that bytecode looks like come sort of Objective-Caml file. perhaps it
can be understood and converted into a human-readable form with the
proper ocaml tool.

Savannah does not host non-free software either, would you mind contacting
the upstream author to ask him/her about this? If it really comes to be
non-free, the savannah account must be terminated also.

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992