Bug#375894: kiax DFSGness not taken seriously

[Santiago Garcia Mantinan]

Package: kiax
Version: 0.8.51.dfsg-1-1
Severity: serious

Hi!

We had a package that we knew was dfsg compliant, I had removed the lib
stuff which had several license problems because of that and then renamed it
to dfsg as we had agreed that it was dfsg compliant, now...

I found of a bad taste that a new "dfsg" package was uploaded, as I had
objected to the DFSGness of this new package, today I have looked at it more
carefully and I found out what had been said before, please somebody correct
me if I'm wrong, but...

1- the echo cancellation stuff doesn't have a license we can use to say it's
free, this has been discussed before (see Emil Stoyanov [1] message to the
list) and I didn't read anybody saying that it was no longer like that

2- the iLBC stuff is stil non-free as it used to be that way and it hasn't
changed its license.

Other than that, having a program include on its sources at least 4 of our
already packaged libs and use those sources to compile them statically
instead of using our tested libs seems a really bad way of packaging
something.

So... after having a package that could go into Debian because it was free,
we have now come back to the sources that our ftp masters had rejected
because they were non-free.

This really seems nonsense to me, I don't know if I have to take this as a
joke or what, who didn't read the list or didn't at least didn't look at the
sources that he was packaging, or... I just can't explain this, please
somebody explain this for me. I had to check twice that what I was looking
at were the sources coming from
cc39dab9cb55afbe9722a6f4ad2bb5f0  kiax_0.8.51.dfsg-1.orig.tar.gz
and not from the old non-free version we used to have, and in fact all
non-free stuff is in there.

I hope I'm missing something with all this, otherwise I don't know what we
are playing at, this seems completely nonsense and a Debian developer should
be more cautious with what he uploads at least once he knows there are
problems with licenses on some parts of a software.

Regards...
-- 
Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2006-May/004800.html