On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:07:04AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:18:29AM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > > ps : last thread on -legal > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/07/msg00056.html > > Looking at this thread there's not a real consensus on whether or not > that file is free, but IMO is 'enough-consensus' to upload the package > in main. As I read indeed there are a lot other packages in main > shipping this file ... > > Anyway many posts refers to the next release of miscfile package which > will contain a copy of that file certainly free. Has this release > happened and does he ship the file? It this is the case, using that > would be certainly better.
Hello, Well, i contact upstream and package maintainer of miscfile, i also propose to upstream of camomile ( who is surely reading this mail ), to try to use it... Upstream of camomile seems ok to use it if and only if it has the same encoding/characters et al ( he propose a test suite to check this ). ( correct me if i am wrong ) Concering upstream and/or packager ( it is the same guy ) of msicfiles, i contact him and he reply that he has give packaging/maintaining of the the file to another people ( as far as i can remember ). I am waiting for a release ( the current one is more old than the one in camomile -- i mean really older ). If i can use this file in place, i will propose to the upstream of camomile a patch to use it... Concerning future release of camomile, i think a upload should be OK because perl, unidata, python et al use the same file ( but i cannot build depends on other package source, so i cannot get this file ). I will prepare a 0.5.0 package for next week. Thanks Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall
