On 2021-03-05 16:52, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:52:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
It seems unlikely that upstream will have changed their mind, it
was only a few months ago when we had the discussion with them.
I intend to draw it into a different audience[1] but not in the next
week where I'm busy with real life issues.
Finally the license statement is all about redistribution ... and than
upstream says: Do not redistribute. This sounds not very convincing
to
me and I would like to ask for technical reasons this opinion might be
based upon. But I would prefer to discuss this in the ITP (in CC and
Reply-to set) to have a single point of discussion for this issue.
The way I read the upstream developer's comments, it wasn't a technical
objection. It was just a social objection: upstream does not want to be
bothered with reports of problems arising from different versions
(including different linked libraries) other than the versions that they
had built themselves. So there's no legal (or technical) reason to not
package, just the social reason that doing so will gain the ire of the
author.
There is precedence: the author of cdrtools was extremely hostile to
packaging,
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00113.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00320.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00653.html
Eventually we had to just drop cdrtools (and consequently xcdroast)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00775.html
Drew