On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Barak A. Pearlmutter <ba...@cs.nuim.ie>wrote:
> As reported in > http://bugs.debian.org/692624 > there is a license issue in fossil, namely > > $ egrep -B12 -A8 -i 'not Evil' src/cson_amalgamation.c > It is this well-meaning clause > > The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. > > which renders the license non-free, > (Seriously, now that it's been reported this will percolate through the > system and cause fossil to be pulled from Debian if it isn't fixed.) > > > The cson_amalgamation.c file is only used by Fossil is you build with "configure --json". So, omit the --json on Debian (which you are probably already doing anyhow.) -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
