Re: [cclib-users] cclib Debian package

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Jeff is correct, and it took a bit of work to figure how to reasonably separate
the components of cclib into two parts for main and non-free. It seems,
however, that the log files might night even be OK for non-free due
to these license issues. It might be easier to just discard all unittests
and log files from the Debian packages. Most users don't care about them anyway.

We will see,
Karol

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 05:58:09PM -0500, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> You can learn more about Debian's rules of inclusion from
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines>.
> Gaussian log files are definitely not compliant with #1 since a
> licensee cannot share them with a competitor of Gaussian (e.g. me).
> If you interpret #2 and #4 to mean that one must have the source code
> used to generate an output file, then this is a clear requirement that
> log files cannot be included without the source of the program used to
> create them, thus, output files from any non-free code must be
> excluded.
> 
> On Debian, Firefox is renamed and uses a different logo because the
> Firefox logo is subject to restrictions that the Debian folks can't
> accept.  They are, of course, happy with the code itself though, since
> it is GPL.  See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project
> for details.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Noel O'Boyle <bao...@gm...> wrote:
> > Non-free? Surprised to hear that. What do they require to be free?
> >
> > On 29 July 2011 17:56, Karol M. Langner <kar...@gm...> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm happy to say that cclib 1.0.1 is in the official Debian archive:
> >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/cclib
> >>
> >> For copyright reasons, the log files (and therefore also unit tests)
> >> were separated into the package cclib-data and moved to the non-free
> >> section of Debian. This package isn't available yet.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Karol
> >>
> >> --
> >> written by Karol M. Langner
> >> Fri Jul 29 18:52:32 CEST 2011
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written by Karol M. Langner
Tue Aug  2 18:36:48 CEST 2011