Sorry to bother you all with this trivial matter. --- Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:58:19AM -0800, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > Dear Debian legal, Gnu License Violation, > > > > There seems to be a problem with the sources of > > the libjpeg package. It does not have the full source code, > > it is missing the autoconf and automake sources. > Some correction are neccessary here: > 1) I suppose you mean configure.in and Makefile.am file. Please do > not > confuse things. > > 2) This package does not use automake at all. the Makefile is ad-hoc. > > > Do you allow debian and gnu packages to be distributed without the > > "full" source code including the autoconf tools. > Again there is several important correction: > > 1) It is by no way a GNU package, it is licensed under the following > copyright > instead: > ------ [SNIP]
> In conclusion, there is no license violation here. This conclusion I have also come to. > > > These sources are needed to port the package to a new platform. > > Could you give more technical background ? This interests me. I am > sure it > will be easier to port libjpeg to a new platform without meddling > with the > configure script. The package is done for now, compiled with the mingw32 cross compiler for windows under debian GNU/Linux. you can find my packages here : http://introspector.sf.net/debian/incoming and a description here http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm > I have done it for The Hurd. Even if you had the > original > configure.in script, it will be in autoconf-2.12 format. I guess that ic > > > > A violation of the GPL could have it removed from the debian > > > distribution and that would endanger the GTK+ toolkit and the > DIA. > > What GPL violation ? libjpeg is not released under the GPL. Your right. But as part of a larger GPL package, we should resolve this issue anyway, it cannot be hard > Please avoid pestering upstream authors and GNU folks with Debian > specific > issue. Ok, well I figured maybe they had the configure file lying around, it would not be hard to include it. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
