Hello Holger! On 5/2/22 16:10, Holger Wansing wrote: > Apparently I did not got the point regarding non-free here, when reading > this mail that day. > > Now I see that partman-hfs is in contrib, and that opened my eyes. > I wonder if it's ok from the license point-of-view, to have a installer > module from contrib in the installer? > Doesn't this turn the whole installer into a no-longer DFSG-free piece of > software?
Only if you build CD images with the packages included which is not happening by default. I would argue it's similar to non-free images that are being built with firmware included. > Or in other words: can we call such installer the "official Debian-Installer"? > > (There is another issue about non-free firmware to be included in the > installer, and unofficial installer images were introduced for this; maybe > this is a similar thing?) Yes. > Ahhh, another thought comes to mind: > maybe this partman-hfs is for ports releases anyway, and not to be used in > official release archs? It's part of unstable, so in principal, it can be used to build non-free installer images. Unfortunately, debian-cd currently seems unable to include udebs from contrib and non-free which is why this has to be enabled in the codebase first anyway. However, I would appreciate it if you could add partman-hfs to the translation project so it gets translated as all the other d-i packages. You are also very welcome to perform uploads of the partman-hfs package yourself. As for the license issue: The hfsprogs package has been in main for a long time but then someone raised the severity of this license bug to serious and the package had to be moved to non-free [1]. I would still argue that Apple's APSL should not be considered non-free, especially since Fedora ships the hfsplus-tools package with their normal distribution [2] and Fedora is known to be very strict when it comes to license questions. Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666707 > [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hfsplus-tools/tree/rawhide -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
