Hi Bertrand,I just discovered your message among my unread e-mails. Sorry about that.
I actually did my best attempt at packaging x13, I still have some manpages written lying. However, the license was and still is the biggest concern. I asked debian-legal for advice, some people suggested to contact upstream and ask if a change in license was possible. US Census Bureau agreed to some modifications [1], but debian-legal was still not entirely convinced [2]. There were some slightly diverging opinions on what is implied. Upstream said the lawyers from US Commerce didn't want to give up the property rights. I'm not sure what it entails but I didn't try to push them further and ask for another change.
You might want to take another look at the debian-legal thread and see if it's worth pushing it to the ftp masters. I'm definitely motivated to try uploading it again, it's a great piece of software.
Rytis [1] https://www.census.gov/srd/www/disclaimer.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2016/03/msg00010.html On 2016-09-30 11:14, Bertrand Marc wrote:
Hello |Rytis, Have you made any progress toward packaging X13 ? I am willing to sponsor an upload if you need. However, I am not familiar with this kind of license, so it should be checked with debian-legal. Best regards, Bertrand |