Re: pychopper has switched to a non-free license in new upstream version

[Pierre Gruet]

Hi again,

Le 17/06/2023 à 22:14, Pierre Gruet a écrit :

Hi all,

Le 17/06/2023 à 19:37, Nilesh Patra a écrit :

On 06/17/2023 11:21 AM IST Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:

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What about opening an upstream to the consequence that this change of
the license will remove the package from Debian.

same in this case either.

That's a sensible thing to do, but I will not do it. I see my time spent well on packaging instead of engaging with upstream in matters that are /not/ technical, and I have no interest to pursue the If you or anybody else would like to ask upstream about reconsidering their license, that's be great. I only wanted to draw the attention to not go ahead with a pychopper update (to 2.7.4) at the moment.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation

I opened an issue [2] and marked it in [1]. Let's see...

[2] https://github.com/epi2me-labs/pychopper/issues/27

Best,

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Pierre

Updates: upstream answered they would not revert to a DFSG-free license, although the given reasons do not seem to address our concern, as tmancill also pointed out in the Github issue [2]. Meanwhile, I updated the package in Debian to version 2.7.3, which is the last one under MPL-2.0. I dropped a note in debian/README.source about the licensing issue.

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