When I read the BZ, it looked like they had issues with the stripped down BSD - per the comment from the Rabbit stuf. I may have miss read.
Carl. On 04/30/2013 12:14 PM, Rafael Schloming wrote: > Hi, > > I believe the XML files are available only under the AMQP license, so this > would indeed seem to be a problem for you if that license is unacceptable. > Fortunately, the AMQP PMC voted a while ago to allow the creation of > stripped down BSD licensed variants of the XML files suitable for machine > consumption[1]. We only use the included spec files for code generators, so > we should be able to replace them with the stripped down BSD variants > without any issues. I don't know if we can fix this by the weekend, but we > should be able to make this change for the next RC of the current release. > Does that help in any way? > > --Rafael > > [1] > http://web.archive.org/web/20090728173229/http://jira.amqp.org/confluence/display/AMQP/PMC03+Creation+of+BSD+Licensed+Code+Generation+Support+Files > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear QPID maintainers, >> >> Jonas Smedegaard just sent a bug report on the Debian bug tracker, >> because he believes that the qpid-python package in Debian is non-free: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706101 >> >> Indeed, when having a look in the sepcs/* folder, we can see a LICENSE >> file which contains both the Apache-2.0 and AMQP license. Though nearly >> all files in that folder contains only the AMQP license header. So it is >> not clear at all under which license these files are. And if they are >> only licensed under the AMQP license, then they are non-free in the eyes >> of Debian (the AMQP license isn't suitable for Debian). >> >> If this issue isn't solved quickly, then the package will have to be >> removed from Debian. >> >> Also, since Debian Wheezy will be out this week-end, a lightning fast >> answer from you would be really appreciated. Best case would be if we >> could solve this problem before the release. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Thomas Goirand (zigo) >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
