Hi Andreas, 2014-06-14 20:08 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>:
> Hi Dylan, > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:45:24AM +0200, Dylan wrote: > > Dear Andrew Thomas, > > I began a package for OpenBUGS [1] as part of Debian Med [2]. > > I have a question about your software: > > I can see on COPYING file that the libOpenBUGS.so is written in "Blackbox > > Component Pascal language, and provided as Blackbox compound document > > (.odc) files. [...] See each individual source file (.odc) for an exact > > license statement.". > > > > There is no .odc files in Linux source package, so what is exactly the > > license of libOpenBUGS.so, GPL3 as OpenBUGS or another specfique license > to > > *.odc files? > > Despite the open licensing question currently libOpenBUGS.so is a binary > without source as far as I can see. So the correct way would be to ask > upstream for the source and remove the binary from the orig.tar.gz which > we use for the Debian package (by using Files-Excluded in > debian/copyright). > I can not exclude libOpenBUGS.so because it is the core of OpenBUGS, its sources seems to be on sourceforge [1] but it was writing in Component Pascal which is impossible to compile on Linux for the moment. So, my plans was to package openbugs as non-free package which include libOpenBUGS.so as binary. It is impossible to do this in this way? Best regards, Dylan [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/openbugs/code/ <http://sourceforge.net/p/openbugs/code/HEAD/tree/>
