Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-28 Thread Ed Hill
Hi Michael and Justin, Thank you for your help! I've submitted a bug (#359707) and will follow its progress. Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL

Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Ed Hill
Hi folks, I'm an occasional Debian user and, while doing package reviews for Fedora Extras, stumbled into the Eterm mix-of-source-licenses situation described below. The following email was sent to the Debian Eterm maintainer. I'm forwarding it to this list because I've not (yet) received a

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Poole
Ed Hill writes: Hi folks, I'm an occasional Debian user and, while doing package reviews for Fedora Extras, stumbled into the Eterm mix-of-source-licenses situation described below. The following email was sent to the Debian Eterm maintainer. I'm forwarding it to this list because I've

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Ed Hill
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:10 -0500, Michael Poole wrote: This kind of licensing conflict is a release-critical bug in the package under Debian Policy. The ideal solution for Debian is exactly what you suggested in the bug comments: work with the upstream maintainer to sort out license

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Poole
Ed Hill writes: On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:10 -0500, Michael Poole wrote: This kind of licensing conflict is a release-critical bug in the package under Debian Policy. The ideal solution for Debian is exactly what you suggested in the bug comments: work with the upstream maintainer to

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Frank Küster
Ed Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm asking because the main upstream author (Michael Jennings) seems to think that the Fedora Guidelines (which are in some ways quite similar to the much-older DSC) are silly rules which discriminate against packages for no real reason: