Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-09-01 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, Thanks everyone for your answers! On 2022-08-30 21:39, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:00:39PM -0500, Ryan Pavlik wrote: >> The easiest way to do the tarball cleaning is with Files-Excluded in the >> copyright file, uscan will involve something (mkorigtargz?) that uses

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-31 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2022-08-31 07:44:55 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Dettbarn wrote: [...] > Granted, you might be able to download the part, safely cut it out > of whatever proprietary software is around it, but the next > distribution (Redhat, Arch, FreeBSD) might run into the same > issue. [...] While not ideal, that

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 07:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > Chipping in my 2 cents here... > > > > > On the "policy"/legal question of whether it's permissible to package > > the internal open source in this larger source for the Debian project, I > > have no specific opinion but it

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
Chipping in my 2 cents here... On the "policy"/legal question of whether it's permissible to package the internal open source in this larger source for the Debian project, I have no specific opinion but it sounds complicated. You might I do. Remember the GPL's mantra: "Free as in speech".

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:00:39PM -0500, Ryan Pavlik wrote: > The easiest way to do the tarball cleaning is with Files-Excluded in the > copyright file, uscan will involve something (mkorigtargz?) that uses it to > repack. That's a technical answer to the technical side of the question. Even

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Ryan Pavlik
The easiest way to do the tarball cleaning is with Files-Excluded in the copyright file, uscan will involve something (mkorigtargz?) that uses it to repack. That's a technical answer to the technical side of the question. On the "policy"/legal question of whether it's permissible to package the

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Niels, Thanks for prompt reply. On 2022-08-30 17:40, Niels Thykier wrote: > From the description you have provided, I would assume yes with the > following assumptions: > >  1) By "Extract AmberTools" you mean repackage the orig tarball. Yes, that is what I meant. >  2) AmberTools consists

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Andrius Merkys: Hello, [...] My question: Is it OK to extract AmberTools from Amber tarball and package for Debian main? [1] https://ambermd.org/AmberTools.php [2] https://ambermd.org/GetAmber.php#ambertools Best, Andrius From the description you have provided, I would assume yes with the

Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, I am looking into packaging AmberTools [1], suite of tools for molecular dynamics simulation. AmberTools is GPL, but it is shipped inside a tarball of a larger piece of software called Amber [2]. To get the tarball one has to put in their name and institution in a form [2], but there is no