[helix-maintainers] Bug#358754: Last call to prevent Helix beeing removed from Debian

[mfrazier]

Daniel - 

We are looking into this issue right now and I will respond with our
official plan once I have all the information.  I hope to send out email by
end of day.

One very important correction in your characterization of the issue below is
that the Helix Team did NOT decide to no longer ship the source-code.  We
understand this is an absolute requirement and we are working on rectifying
the situation.

I do have a question for you so hopefully you can enlighten me on how would
you suggest we add license headers to a .bmp files.  

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Baumann [mailto:daniel.baumann at panthera-systems.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:28 AM
> To: Rishi Mathew; David Hirayama; Donya Shirzad; Scott Nelson; Greg
> Wright; Michael Frazier; kevinf at real.com
> Cc: 321195 at bugs.debian.org; 358754 at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Last call to prevent Helix beeing removed from Debian
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in December 2005, the Helix Team was informed about the undistributable
> code in Helix Player (some code does not have a license at all, and the
> dna code which is available separately, is even non-free). Since then,
> no action was taken to solve the problem.
> 
> With the 1.0.7 release of Helix Player, the Helix Team decided to no
> longer ship the source-code (the source tarball contains a src.rpm which
> contains binary-only stuff, but no source-code). It can't be optained
> via CVS, the respective module is empty (yes, I did login properly).
> Although I opened bug #4885 on helixcommunity, there is still no
> reaction to that.
> 
> Please note, that I have the *right* to get the source-code, I have
> downloaded the binary and decided to use it under the GNU General Public
> License, so you *must* ship it to me when I ask for it (at least for the
> parts which are proper licensed).
> 
> This is your last chance - if you don't fix the two issues and/or answer
> at latest until Apr, 11 2006 12:00 UTC, I will request the removal of
> helix-player from Debian.
> 
> For your reference:
>   * Undistributable code - http://bugs.debian.org/321195
>   * No source - http://bugs.debian.org/358754
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
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