[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

[Ralf Treinen]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:27:14PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote:
> 
> Thanks for offering your help. I have requested a refresh on my updated
> GPG key but so far I got no news.
> 
> >     In your opinion, which files would have to be dropped ? How would
> >     dropping
> >     parts of the source affect the packaging ?
> > 
> > Most of the files affected by these  two bug reports have been
> > acknowledged by upstream and a solution is already been approved but not
> > yet implemented. 
> 
> Regarding #697847, the files under bin/LabVIEW_RT can be removed.

yes, that one seems pretty easy (and has to be done even when the package 
moves to non-free).

> I'm more annoyed by #697848. The first two issues raised by Ansgar were
> not yet discussed with upstream because I need a confirmation on what
> is exactly the issue. If this is what I underlined in my reply then I
> am afraid we will have no easy solution except for moving ace to
> non-free.

I am afraid I agree with Ansgar that the licence is rife with problems,
in particular the part where you are not allowed to remove functionality.
This can be read as forbidding to rip part of the source code and reuse
it in a different projet. Can it be DFSG-free if this is not allowed ?

Different parts of the source code are covered by different licences. The
question for me was rather whether it is possible to keep a kernel ace
package containing only source code that is not covered by problematic
licences, and possibly move the rest into an ace-nonfree package. Are you
saying that this is not possible, and that the only possible action 
would be to move everything to non-free? I don't know anything about the
structure of the ace package.

Cheers -Ralf