Hi, some time ago there was a discussion[1] about the f2c lincense, specifically about the part goto_trans/* which says:
... it is freely available without fee for education, research, and non-profit purposes. The restriction to certain purposes is considered non-free according to the Open Source definition[2] since item 6. does not allow discrimination against fields of endeavor. We have packaged f2c in Debian format but because of this license it can not become part of Debian but is rather provided in non-free. The problem is that f2c is at the beginning of some chain of dependencies which makes it impossible to put all these into main Debian. Since so far nobody followed Keith's hint[1] to replace the functionality of goto_trans/* by Apache Commons BCEL or something like this I wonder whether you as the author might consider droping the restriction and using a really free license. Thanks for considering Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/03/msg00235.html [2] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated -- http://fam-tille.de __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.