Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Thanks to everyone who provided comments. I've sent a polite email detailing some of the licensing issues upstream. The person who does the Debian packaging for ROOT upstream (Christian Holm Christensen) has said to me by email that he would like to ITP ROOT for Debian, so I will not be filing

Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-01-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Clearly the license is non-free due to the requirement that modified versions not be distributed without the permission of the authors. My question is this: if I were to obtain permission from the authors for Debian to distribute packaged binaries

Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-01-31 Thread James Troup
Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Clearly the license is non-free due to the requirement that modified versions not be distributed without the permission of the authors. My question is this: if I were to obtain permission from the

Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-01-31 Thread Craig P Steffen
Being unable to not fix security issues in a timely manner is a Bad Thing. We should not support, endorse or otherwise support such software. Not even in non-free (which is not part of Debian proper). Just in case there's some confusion about the type of package, I believe root is a C++

Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-01-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Jan-03, 10:17 (CST), Craig P Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having this package in Debian would be a tremendous asset. I think that ROOT's license is acceptable for non-free. Whether it's wise to add it is up to you, the maintainer, and the users. In particular, if I were considering

Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Rafn
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Clearly the license is non-free due to the requirement that modified versions not be distributed without the permission of the authors. My question is this: if I were to obtain permission from the authors for Debian to distribute packaged binaries

Re: License of ROOT: acceptable for non-free?

2003-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Craig P Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's an analysis package, analagous to Gnuplot. I don't think that it does any network stuff at all, so I don't think that security is an issue. Security is always an issue. If it's found out, for example, that the program has a buffer overflow that