Your message dated Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:29:30 +0100
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has caused the report #509287,
regarding afio: license is non-free
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s)
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Hi Koen,
[Please keep CC, ignore prev mail, because typo in address]
I'm the maintainer of the Debian package of afio.
I got a bug report against package "afio" because of licence problems.
The license of afio.c from 1985 isn't free enough for Debian Free
Software Guidelines.
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287.
There is an ongoing discussion on a Redhat list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037 and they excluded
the package already from distribution. There is an other blog on
http://www.kernelplanet.org/fedora/ that gave a summary of the current
situation.
What's you opinion?
Do you see any chance to change the license of afio.c to a really free
one?
I fear I have to move it to "non-free" section of Debian archive, that
means it will be not in the main distribution anymore.
Best regards,
Erik
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