Le 26 mars 09 à 17:29, Chow Loong Jin a écrit :
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The problem begins here: The Java portion has a build-dependency on
Sun
Microsystem's WTK[1], and it is not free[2]. However, this is just a
build dependency, and not a runtime dependency. In fact, the .jar
isn't
even supposed to run on the target machine, it's supposed to be
uploaded
to the mobile device.
Hence, my question: Is it okay (within DFSG) for upstream to
distribute
the said .jar file, together with the sources for this .jar file, and
for this said .jar file to be copied straight into a .deb and
distributed as-is?
Hi,
you could provide the .jar in non-free, and the DFSG free part which
actually runs on the host could Suggest this non-free package. You
need to provide a mean to upload it to the cellphone from the Debian
box.
Then of course you could try and see whether the .jar can be build by
a DFSG free compiler. I know close to nothing about this, so I
couldn't tell how likely it is.
Distributing non-DFSG-free software in main, even if it is not
supposed to run on the Debian host and can be considered data... will
probably be rejected.
Regards, Thibaut.
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