Bug#714836: Any news on the qucs package?
Hi José L,
Thanks for giving detailed information!
This explains it very well.
Getting the licenses ok isn't always the easiest thing to do...
I wish you good luck and I hope that we once again will see Qucs in the archive.
Thanks a lot for the effort!
Best regards,
Ruben
2015-02-21 19:28 GMT+01:00 José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo@debian.org>:
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> 2015-02-21 12:46 GMT+01:00 Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>:
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>> Hi,
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>> > I've just uploaded it to the archive
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>> I just saw this was written in October. As far as I can see, Qucs is
>> not available in the Debian repository now. Is there anything holding
>> it up?
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> Yes, the sources contain some files which license is not acceptable by
> Debian ftpmaster, so it has been rejected.
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>> Which archive did you upload it too?
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>> I can see that there is a well maintained PPA for Ubuntu with packages
>> in good state here:
>> https://launchpad.net/~fransschreuder1/+archive/ubuntu/qucs
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>> Is there any reason why this package cannot enter Debian sid also
>> soon. I'm impressed of how well Qucs has become.
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> Yes, it is not a pure technical question. The package was ready, working and
> lintian clean.
> It 's a licensing problem. There are a bunch of files (mainly models) with
> non-free licenses. I'm trying to clean them all, but qucs funcionality are
> being reduced.
> I'm trying to find a replacement to keep it all working.
> Of course, the ppa package you say it's still worse in terms of licensing. I
> had already removed the files I was sure that were not free, but ftpmasters
> found some others.
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> Regards
> José L.
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>> Best regards,
>> Ruben
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