Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear debian-legal, > > yocto-reader is a package licenced under the AGPL, and due to the novelties of > this license there is divergence of interpretation on wether this package is > fit for the release or not. > > Can you have a look to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507579 > and help to resolve the issue? > > The bug is quite short so I hope there is no need to make a summary. The main > issues are: > > - Wether the Debian package is a modification of upstream work that fails to > provide access to the diff and the build environment.
Upstream is also the Debian maintainer. So the question of whether Debian is modifying the code is sufficiently fuzzy that I do not feel comfortable saying anything definite. If someone else takes over maintenance (e.g. QA), then they would have more work on their hands. > - Wether it is acceptable to have html pages that include a link to a remote > non-free Google javascript. If I understand correctly, the Google javascript is required in order for the page to work properly. In Debian parlance, this means that yocto-reader depends on the Google javascript. So at a minimum yocto-reader would have to go into contrib. Now, it also seems like the Google javascript implements an API that yocto-reader uses. This makes the javascript more like a library, and the AGPL requires the source of all of the libraries that it uses. In summary, I am unsure about the first point, but I agree with Florian Weimer about the second point. Unfortunately, this means that the code can not be packaged unless it is relicensed. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
