[finnix] Copyright and license of Balder (isolinux/dos.imz) and how to reproduce?!

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Jan 11 01:52:43 PST 2010


Hello Ryan,

thanks for your response.

Am 10.01.2010 02:52, schrieb Ryan Finnie:
> But for that reason, I would recommend not packaging Balder.  I'm glad
> you like it (as do I), but as a fellow Debian DM, I understand the
> importance of clean licensing and ease of upstream maintenance.  Due
> to the method of packaging Balder, it would be difficult to be able to
> provide upstream support for it.  Sorry.

I also posted my concerns to the debian-legal mailing list and the 
only reponse that I got so far confirms that it is not strictly needed 
to recompile a package from source, but does also question how much 
sense it makes to package Balder for Debian:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/01/msg00054.html>

I think I will stay with my private packages for the time being, but I 
am glad I did at least try and ask. ;)

Cheers,
Fabian


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