Octave-forge and legal issues
Quentin Spencer
qspencer at ieee.org
Mon Apr 25 14:50:26 UTC 2005
I have resolved most of the problems with octave-forge this package
except one, and I don't know how best to proceed. Someone discovered
something in the source tree that I had forgotten about: there is a
nonfree source tree containing a few functions whose license prohibit
commercial redistribution. The nonfree tree is not built into the
resulting RPM, but the source would remain in the source tarball. I see
the following options:
1. Ask the legal department if this is allowed and can stay as it is.
2. Create a modified source tarball with the offending code removed.
This would be easy, but the source wouldn't match the upstream source.
3. Get the upstream maintainer to remove the offending source code (this
has been discussed and he has expressed a willingness to do that, but I
don't know how soon the next release will be, the current one is 6
months old).
Right now, I'd like to go with option 2 because it's something I can do
without waiting for anyone else. My question is, does this break any
established rules or preferred ways of doing things?
regards,
Quentin
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