Hello Manuel, Thank you for taking your time to help with this. I do however believe your conclusion is inconsistent with Debian policy.
In regards to the non-free repo, The debian policy manual states: "The non-free archive area contains supplemental packages intended to work with the Debian distribution that do not comply with the DFSG or have other problems that make their distribution problematic." with the other requirements that packages attempt to comply with what they can and aren't hopelessly buggy. The Debian New Maintainers Guide states: "For the non-free section, [the license] may be non-compliant with the DFSG but [the license] must be distributable." Neither case specifically disallows proprietary licensing so long as redistribution is allowable. For this package a license to freely redistribute with attribution has been granted. As for the source code condition. it seems rather unfounded. In the list of packages you linked only a single package was noted be in binary form (the one you directly linked). The first line of the reasoning states: "The underlying engine contains a sound font taken from a proprietary adventure game by Sierra. The game media isn't DFSG-free either (Creative Commons). If the sound is replaced might be distributable in non-free section (?)." The reasoning behind the packages denial seems to be that an individual file was not made redistributable making the package unable to be distributed in non-free with that file. I believe the notes about binary files were added to communicate that it would not be an accomplishable task to remove that non-redistributable file. Finally, I would like to highlight the "steam" package available here https://packages.debian.org/sid/steam This package is binary-only, proprietary licensed and distributed in non-free/games. Regardless of accuracy, Thank you once again for taking your time to help with this. On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 17:10:17 +0200 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" < manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > 2017-06-27 01:27 Justin Gerhardt: > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >Owner: Justin Gerhardt <jus...@gerhardt.link> > > > >* Package name : factorio-server > > Version : 0.15.23 > > Upstream Author : Wube Software <facto...@factorio.com> > >* URL : https://www.factorio.com/ > >* License : Proprietary > > Please note that, in general, software under proprietary licenses are > not appropriate even for Debian "non-free". > > See for example: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Unsuitable?highlight=%28non-free%29#Soviet_Unterz.2BAPY-gersdorf_.5BAug_2006.5D > > and other games in that page for an idea of what can be packaged and > what cannot. > > After a quick glance, it seems to me that the source code for the game > is not provided anywhere and that the game server itself is provided in > binary form only, in which case it cannot be distributed by Debian. > > > Cheers. > -- > Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> > >
