Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear debian-legal,
yocto-reader is a package licenced under the AGPL, and due to the novelties of
this license there is divergence of interpretation on wether this package is
fit for the release or not.
Can you have a look to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507579
and help to resolve the issue?
The bug is quite short so I hope there is no need to make a summary. The main
issues are:
- Wether the Debian package is a modification of upstream work that fails to
provide access to the diff and the build environment.
Upstream is also the Debian maintainer. So the question of whether
Debian is modifying the code is sufficiently fuzzy that I do not feel
comfortable saying anything definite. If someone else takes over
maintenance (e.g. QA), then they would have more work on their hands.
- Wether it is acceptable to have html pages that include a link to a remote
non-free Google javascript.
If I understand correctly, the Google javascript is required in order
for the page to work properly. In Debian parlance, this means that
yocto-reader depends on the Google javascript. So at a minimum
yocto-reader would have to go into contrib.
Now, it also seems like the Google javascript implements an API that
yocto-reader uses. This makes the javascript more like a library, and
the AGPL requires the source of all of the libraries that it uses.
In summary, I am unsure about the first point, but I agree with
Florian Weimer about the second point. Unfortunately, this means that
the code can not be packaged unless it is relicensed.
Cheers,
Walter Landry
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