Hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:11:39PM +0200, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > > I have just talked to Stefan (Kurtz) about this and apparently he is not > interested in making REPuter available, even in binary form, without a > signed written license agreement. So that means it is not just about > "accessible source for some individuals", the problem rather being the > uncontrollable nature of distributing the software via a Debian repository. > Regarding source, the source code of REPuter is also not open. > By the way, the REPuter functionality is now contained in the Vmatch > software suite (http://www.vmatch.de), which is similarly licensed. > Sorry to disappoint, but it seems quite unlikely that a package will > ever come up for this software.
I exluded REPuter and thus also RepeatFinder which depends from it from our todo list in the tasks file because I do not see a point in advertising non-distributable code. More generally speaking: We did not (yet) reached the goal that including a software into Debian is attractive enough to let people consider any license change. This reminds me that we also to some extend should try to do some non-technical work like talking to people about their license as I suggested here https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012/ePetition_Phylip but unfortunately without any visible success. Kind regards Andreas. -- 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]
