Bug#154312: Is mldonkey DFSG-Free ?

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> writes:

> 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.

Please browse the mldonkey-users archives and make yourself an opinion.
Everything has already been discussed there.

Cheers,


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Jérôme Marant

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