Hi Wolfgang, I intended to package colt as a precondition for some phylogeny package inside Debian. Unfortunately the current license is in conflict with the Debian Free Software Guidelines
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines specifically item 5. and 6. saying: 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons. 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic reseach. So while I personally perfectly share your pacifistic intentions and it is a hard job I need to take over hereby but I wonder whether you might consider a point of view that licensing of Free Software and pacifistic view of the world are orthogonal things. If not we never can release colt nor its dependencies in main Debian which would be a shame. Kind regards Andreas. ----- Forwarded message from Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> ----- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:31:46 +0000 From: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> To: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>, Debian Med Packaging Team <[email protected]> Cc: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> Subject: colt_1.2.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED X-Spam_score: -2.3 Hi, I'm rejecting your package as hep.aida.* is non-free according to the information in xdocs/license.xml: Permission to use and/or redistribute this work is granted under the terms of the LGPL License, with the exception that any usage related to military applications is expressly forbidden. The software and documentation made available under the terms of this license are provided with no warranty. Regards, Ansgar === Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our concerns. _______________________________________________ Debian-med-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
