Octave-forge and legal issues

Mon Apr 25 14:56:10 UTC 2005

Quentin Spencer wrote :

> 2. Create a modified source tarball with the offending code removed. 
> This would be easy, but the source wouldn't match the upstream source.

This has already been done for some packages (e.g. xmms, gstreamer-
plugins), and AFAIK is acceptable. Ideally, include as one of the
"SourceX:" lines a quick little script that can reproduce the modified
tarball from the original one (uncompress the original tarball, remove
this and that, recompress with the new tarball name).

Matthias

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