Hi Jari, >Further, the *.ps file contains comment which effectively > makes it non-free for distribution: > > % Copyright (c) 1985,1987 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights > Reserved.
don't be misled by this header -- if you look inside the postscript file, you'll see that this is for one standard part of the postscript generation and not for the postscript file or the contents of the document. There are plenty of examples of boilerplate like this all over the archive. More substantively, the document in question appears to be a preprint of Eugene W. Myers, "An O(ND) difference algorithm and its variations", Algorithmica, 1986, 1(1-4), 251-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01840446 I can't comment on whether distribution of preprints was permitted by that journal in 1986, but there are many ps and pdf versions of this preprint floating around on the internet. It would be highly unlikely that derivative works were encouraged or permitted by the journal or that the source code for an article from 1986 still exists and can be rerendered using today's tools. I suspect providing a README with a suitable link to the documentation on the upstream website would be the best plan here. > The easiest route would be as follows: > > - Remove *.ps files from original wiggle-N.N.tar.gz package > - Move *.ps to new package wiggle-N.N-extra-doc.tar.gz package > > This way the Debian could continue distributing Wiggle (source > package) easily, without the problematic *.ps file. > > Could you separate the *.ps from the original sources to an extra > package and make an 0.9.1 release? No. A 0.9.1 release doesn't really help us here -- you need to prepare a 0.8+dfsg-1 upload to unstable with a new .orig.tar.gz that omits the ps file alter the built system since you will no longer include the ps file in the binary package. A new upstream release with a 0.9.1 version just gets us a new upstream version which is not welcome in wheezy at this stage of the freeze and so doesn't actually solve this bug for the release of wheezy. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
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