virtuoso-opensource DFSG changes

[Obey Arthur Liu]

[+pkg-virtuoso-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org]

Hi Will!

I pointed out the various licensing problems to upstream on
virtuoso-devel at lists.sourceforge.net (
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtuoso-devel) and they fixed
almost all of it.
Most mails have been cc'ed to
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-virtuoso-maintainers so
you can look them up there.

I think rationales for all cases you cited were provided in various mails to
upstream. Tell me if there's something missing.

Cheers

Arthur

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Will Daniels <mail at willdaniels.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
>
> I was just looking at updating subject packaging project to the new
> upstream version and I hope you don't mind me asking some probably
> obvious questions about the DFSG changes so that I can learn more about
> that process:
>
>  * Removal of dll and jar files I understand.
>
>  * Removal of zlib, pcrelib (and I think also the DocBook XSL
> stylesheets) I assume is just in favour of external packages.
>
>  * Removal of the CalendarPopup.js seems to make sense because even I
> can see incompatible restrictions in the license, and this has been
> removed from upstream sources now it seems.
>
>  * I did not bother to look at all at appsrc/ODS-Framework/rte,
> binsrc/yacutia/ie7, binsrc/samples/TPC-W/ or binsrc/oat/toolkit since
> they no longer appear to be distributed in the upstream sources either.
>
> The one I'm unsure about is appsrc/ODS-Wiki. Can you please tell me why
> that was removed for DFSG?
>
> I have read the DFSG bullet points under the Debian Social Contract, but
> are there any more detailed guides or tools that people use in applying
> the guidelines in packaging? Or do you just go through the entire source
> manually and check licenses on everything?
>
> Also have you been communicating with OpenLink on some of these points
> or was it coincidence that they seem to have removed much of the
> offending code?
>
> Thanks,
> Will
>
>
>
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