Hi Andrej, On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:45 PM Andrej Shadura < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/05/2020 19:39, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > > Java-diff-utils is based on the LGPL-2.1 code which IIRC was a direct > > port of GNU diff to Java, and the then-maintainer of j-d-u has slapped > > ASL on that code: > > In other words, in my opinion the right approach would be to port Bazel > to the current j-d-u project, submit the patch upstream and thus reduce > the number of packages depending on the legacy j-d-u. > > Uploading unmaintained legacy code with questionable licensing is a big > meh in my book. > Wow. Good points. I agree and thanks for bringing them up! I'm willing to deal with a lot to get good code into Debian but licensing issues is typically not one of them... :/ Better to know about such things sooner than later... Sudip: I appreciate your enthusiasm here but in light of this issue perhaps it may be better if you looked at one of the other packages instead. -Olek
