Bug#290362: marked as done (www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged)
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From: Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
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Subject: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged
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Hello,
Could someone please add Root (http://root.cern.ch/) to the list of software
that cannot be packaged, http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
? There have been several attempts at ITPs:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/1999/12/msg00009.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/01/msg00278.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/12/msg00278.html
There are two problems: first, the license [1] forbids redistribution of
modified binaries without permission of the authors, which some have argued
makes it unsuitable even for non-free [2]; second, and worse, the software
contains what appears to be code derived from cernlib (GPL) [3] and Xclass
(LGPL) [4] while having a license incompatible with either.
[1] http://root.cern.ch/root/License.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/01/msg00297.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/01/msg00281.html
[3] http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/conditions.html
[4] http://xclass.sourceforge.net/
This is most unfortunate, since Root is a very useful tool and a number of
interesting projects are based on it, but I don't see how Debian can
legally package it, even in non-free, until upstream changes their license.
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Subject: Closing this bug since Root is now Free Software
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I am closing this bug. Root has been re-licensed under the LGPL:
http://root.cern.ch/viewcvs/LICENSE?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
so it can now be packaged for Debian.
No further action is necessary since Root was never actually added to
this page: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
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