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Bug#714836: Any news on the qucs package?





2015-02-21 20:15 GMT+01:00 Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>:
Btw: Is there a way to make the non-free models available as a
separate package in the non-free archive perhaps once in the future?



mmm, yes but if we qucs to be able to use them, it should be moved from free to contrib section in the archive.

 
Ruben

2015-02-21 20:11 GMT+01:00 Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>:
> 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>:
>>
>>
>> 2015-02-21 12:46 GMT+01:00 Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> > I've just uploaded it to the archive
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, the sources contain some files which license is not acceptable by
>> Debian ftpmaster, so it has been rejected.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Which archive did you upload it too?
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Is there any reason why this package cannot enter Debian sid also
>>> soon. I'm impressed of how well Qucs has become.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Regards
>> José L.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ruben
>>
>>


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