Thomas Weber wrote: > Hello, > >>I will take the opportunity here to ask you a question: I always >>wondered why ROOT is not in the debian archives, altought it provides >>a direct way to build deb packages from the sources? > > While not being a DD, I guess it's a license problem: > > http://root.cern.ch/root/License.html > Imagine your are the package maintainer -- do you really want to ask the > upstream authors for every typing error you fix in the documentation?
I am far from expert at licenses, but it seems to me that the phrasing "Users of the software are asked to feed back problems, benefits, and/or suggestions about the software to the ROOT Development Team" doesn't actually force people who make changes to the software back to the ROOT people. So I don't think that would actually make it non-DFSG-free. It might be worth asking the opinion of [email protected] on this license. If it is DFSG-free, you could request it to be packaged for Debian, or package it yourself and find a DD to sponsor it into the archive. Helen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
