severity 509287 serious thanks i am re-raising the severity of this issue so it can be appropriately considered for the squeeze release. the lower severity ended up effectively fizzling out the discussion (due to loss of urgency). there has been no activity in almost two years now because of that.
while there was active discussion, a lot of good points were made; the original author was contacted, and it seems his intention was to make the software license permissive. however permissive in 1985 is rather restrictive today. the fact is however that he didn't retain copyright for the code, so even though his viewpoint is useful, it really isn't definitive. the present copyright holder needs to give the ok. i still think that in the meantime the appropriate solution is the remove the package. the popcon count is rather low [0], so this shouldn't be too much of an impact in the real world. fedora/redhat have already done that, and there wasn't any protest. best wishes, mike [0] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=afio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
