Comments regarding boinc_6.10.58+dfsg-1_i386.changes

[Steffen Möller]

Rene, I can do this tonight.

Many greetings

Steffen

On 07/16/2010 03:04 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Hi maintainers!
>
> Am 16.07.2010 03:26, schrieb Rene Mayorga:
>
>   
>>> I'm a bit worried about the license mixture used in your package "boinc".  For
>>> example the following:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Files: samples/glut/win32_util.[ch] samples/glut/win32_x11.[ch]
>>>> Copyright: <C2><A9> 1997 Nate Robins
>>>>            <C2><A9> 1997-1998 Mark Kilgar
>>>> License: other
>>>>  This program is freely distributable without licensing fees and is
>>>>  provided without guarantee or warrantee expressed or implied.
>>>>  This program is -not- in the public domain.
>>>>         
>>> Doesn't satisfy the DFSG as it doesn't allow modifications, only distribution.
>>> Judging from their name, they might be easily removable?
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes this can be remove if it needed.
>>     
> Then please do so.
>
>
>   
>> But I was a bit more afraid about lib/cal.h, 
>> you can check http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/01/msg00000.html
>>
>> at that time was not a real consensus about this file, this can be removed but
>> if we do we will disable some capabilities.
>>
>> What do you guys think on this? If this file is really stopped us from
>> distribute boinc on main, we might want to move the package to
>> non-free until all this things are solved.
>>     
> The ftp-team agrees, that just the header file isn't a problem.  You may
> leave them.
>
>
>   
>>>> Files: *
>>>> Copyright: <C2><A9> 2005-2008 University of California
>>>> License: LGPL-3+
>>>>         
>>> [..]
>>>       
>>>> Files: stripchart/*
>>>> Copyright: <C2><A9> 2002 University of California at Berkeley
>>>> License: MPL-1.0
>>>>         
>>> However, as stipchart seems to be just a CGI script, I'm not sure if shipping
>>> it with an incompatible license creates any problems.  I'll get back to you
>>> about that issue ASAP.
>>>       
>> Great, thanks in advance for your help.
>>     
> Again good news:  I don't consider that to be a problem either.  So only
> remaining issue are the windows specific non-free files.  Please remove
> them and re-upload.
>
>
> Best regards,
>   Alexander
>
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