Dominic, Sorry to get back to you late. I am wishing to replace these flash files by more generic solution such as JavaScript and/or HTML5 at some future MT5 milestone. But I believe that we are looking for the immediate solution for MT4.3x.
It is difficult to simply remove these files since it is tighten to the core functionality. I know one MT4 plugin which will disable the Blog Stats function. ( originally it was developed for the performance reason ) I am not sure whether the plugin will also allow us to remove the flash files. It can be a solution, but then we have to create some kind of a dedicated package for the distribution. In any ways, we need more time and probably need a future release to replace the functionality itself. Jun Kaneko On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> wrote: > [CCing original bug submitter] > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:34:04PM +0900, Jun Kaneko wrote: >> The flash is based on Measure Map >> >> http://web.archive.org.sharedcopy.com/web/20080201024546/http://www.measuremap.com/developer/slider/5e904e2f0806268e138f94fd951667b4.html >> >> and it's been licensed under CC2.0 Generic. > > Unfortunately, this licence has been deemed non-DFSG-free: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#CreativeCommonsAttributionLicense.28CC-by.29.2Cv1.0 > > so I don't think we can leave things as they are in Debian main, even > if we could get the correct version of the source code. > > I'm not sure what the best way to move forward on this, to avoid > having to remove MT from Debian main. > > Does anyone have a feel for how easy it would be to remove the > flash without affecting the rest of the functionality of the > application? To be honest I don't have much time or energy to devote > to this so if there is consensus in Debian that the current situation > can't stand, removal, or at least moving to non-free is inevitable. > > Dominic. > > -- > Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ > PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) > _______________________________________________ > MTOS-dev mailing list > mtos-...@sixapart.com > http://www.sixapart.com/mailman/listinfo/mtos-dev > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
