Hi Bertrand,
I just discovered your message among my unread e-mails. Sorry about
that.
I actually did my best attempt at packaging x13, I still have some
manpages written lying. However, the license was and still is the
biggest concern. I asked debian-legal for advice, some people suggested
to contact upstream and ask if a change in license was possible. US
Census Bureau agreed to some modifications [1], but debian-legal was
still not entirely convinced [2]. There were some slightly diverging
opinions on what is implied. Upstream said the lawyers from US Commerce
didn't want to give up the property rights. I'm not sure what it entails
but I didn't try to push them further and ask for another change.
You might want to take another look at the debian-legal thread and see
if it's worth pushing it to the ftp masters. I'm definitely motivated to
try uploading it again, it's a great piece of software.
Rytis
[1] https://www.census.gov/srd/www/disclaimer.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2016/03/msg00010.html
On 2016-09-30 11:14, Bertrand Marc wrote:
Hello |Rytis,
Have you made any progress toward packaging X13 ? I am willing to
sponsor an upload if you need.
However, I am not familiar with this kind of license, so it should be
checked with debian-legal.
Best regards,
Bertrand
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