Hi Alexei, I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team since we would like to package Beast2 as we also did with Beast - I guess I contacted you abou this before.
Luckily we now have all preconditions packaged for Debian now and the package builds but I noticed that you are using copies of the "evil" JSON Java library. The files in src/org/json are copyrighted under the non-free license of json and the infamous clause: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. This is non-free because it adds a restriction for usage - even worse the most stupid one I have ever seen since there is barely no definition what is good and what might be evil. Feel free to refer to https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil for details. The good news is that there are two alternatives packaged for Debian libjson-java: http://json-lib.sourceforge.net libjson-simple-java: https://github.com/fangyidong/json-simple which could hopefully serve as a replacement for the non-free code that is currently shipped by Beast2. Could you please comment about the chances to do this? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
