Hi Andreas,
2014-06-15 18:57 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>: > Hi Dylan, > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:17:16AM +0200, Dylan wrote: > > > Despite the open licensing question currently libOpenBUGS.so is a > binary > > > without source as far as I can see. So the correct way would be to ask > > > upstream for the source and remove the binary from the orig.tar.gz > which > > > we use for the Debian package (by using Files-Excluded in > > > debian/copyright). > > > > I can not exclude libOpenBUGS.so because it is the core of OpenBUGS, its > > sources seems to be on sourceforge [1] but it was writing in Component > > Pascal which is impossible to compile on Linux for the moment. So, my > plans > > was to package openbugs as non-free package which include libOpenBUGS.so > as > > binary. It is impossible to do this in this way? > > Hmmm, well, that's probably possible but not nice in any case. You > should definitely teach upstream to use FreePascal and explicitly ask for > permission to distribute the binary (and add this to the copyright file). > If you agree, I will continue to work on non-free package and I will ask upstream permission to distribute the binary. On the other hand, I will try to find a way to compile libOpenBUGS.so on Linux to transfer the package from non-free to main repository. Best regards, Dylan
