Bug#420607: Jin is non-free, with distribution limitations
After looking at the licensing issues a little deeper, and consulting
upstream, it seems there are two binary-only jars that are non-free
and are required to compensate for lag. Removing them would
significantly degrade the user experience and it seems there's no
possibility for them to be opened up. So, I have no alternative but to
give up this package since I have no plans of maintaining non-free
software.
There was also the case of parts of the distribution being none-DFSG
compliant, which needed to be looked at, but mostly superseded by the
previous constraint.
Jin is still a great piece of software, and upstream has been
very courteous in responding to my requests. If anyone is willing to
take it up, please let me know off the list, so I can send you what
I've done so far.
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Anuradha Weeraman
http://www.linux.lk/~anu/
http://anuradha.wordpress.com
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