Is it OK to distribute a script, which is - licencend under GPL. - intended to be executed by a non-free interpreter.
Background: I'm intending to package maria (ITP at bug #146320), which is licenced under GPL. Besides the main tool, called maria, it also contains a script, called maria-vis, which can be used to visualise the output of maria. It is a script for the "lefty" interpreter, which is part of the non-free graphviz package. The first line of maria-vis is #!/usr/bin/lefty I was intending to split maria into several binary packages, in particular - maria: the core. Goes into main, suggests maria-vis - maria-vis: the mentioned script + manpage. Goes into contrib, depends on graphviz. When I sent my ITP on debian-devel today, Moshe Zadka claimed that even distributing maria-viz would be illegal. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200208/msg00188.html Can please someone advise whether this is really the case? Thanks. -Ralf. --