On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:36:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0200, Andreas B. Mundt a écrit : > > > > To be able to compile the program with standard tools, the > > pre-compiled code of the ROM-dumpers is included in the source. This > > code needs to be removed for DFSG reasons. > > note that the DFSG do not imply that we need to remove the pre-compiled code > from the source package. If 1) it can be redistributed; 2) its source code is > provided; 3,4) its modification is allowed in practical terms; 5,6) there are > no unreasonable restrictions on how to use it, and 7,8,9) its license is not > awkward, then the work is Free according to the DFSG. > > Nevertheless, our current quality standards for the binary packages is that > each file must be rebuildable from source, and for the ROMs discused here, > without the proper compiler in Debian it is not possible. So in practice, > this > pre-compiled code can not be added to the binary packages, but I would like to > stress that it is not because of the DFSG.
Such code is welcome in the contrib section, though. And you don't even need to split the source package: sources in main may produce contrib binaries. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
