[Pkg-octave-devel] Debian packagers want to know

[Sébastien Villemot]

Philip Nienhuis <pr.nienhuis at hccnet.nl> writes:

>> Other interfaces (Apache POI, OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not
>> available in Debian because they are either not yet packaged or non-free
>> (e.g. the poi-ooxml JAR has been removed from libapache-poi-java package since
>> it depends on non-DFSG-free software).
>
> What non-DFSG-free SW? AFAICS it is released under Apache license, as is xbean
> (=taken from xmlbeans). Or is dom4j's BSD style license the culprit?

Looks like the problem does not come from poi-ooxml itself but from some
of its dependencies. I don't know more. You should contact the Debian
packagers of libapache-poi-java for more details.

See the following patch about poi-ooxml:

 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/libapache-poi-java/debian/patches/03_no_ooxml.patch?view=markup

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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