reassign 569648 ftp.debian.org retitle 569648 RM: d4x -- RoQA; non-free affects 569648 + d4x thanks
Dear FTP team, can you remove d4x ? At a first glance, it looks like distributed under the Artistic license, but source file headers and discussion with upstream show that he really meant much more restrictive conditions: anx178 ↱d4x-2.5.7.1↲$ head main/main.h /* WebDownloader for X-Window * Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Koshelev Maxim * This Program is free but not GPL!!! You can't modify it * without agreement with author. You can't distribute modified * program but you can distribute unmodified program. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. */ d4x has not seem to have been updated upstream since 2006. Its upstream homepage is actually dead. It has been removed from other distributions like Fedora (although for other reasons): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Artistic1Removal#d4x Its restrictive license killed the fork that tried to revive it: http://www.d4x.net/ Le Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:52:53AM +0200, Arnaud GRANAL a écrit : > > I have bad news about this. > > Maxim is very clear about this issue: > "You can distribute only unmodified sources." =( (Where Maxim is the upstream author of d4x). No other package depend on d4x or d4x-common. Its popcon vote score is 100, but there are other alternatives, like uget or aria2 (reference: http://bugs.debian.org/382732) For all these reason, I propose the removal of d4x. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
