[Pki-devel] osutil: some issues regarding copyright, code

[Timo Aaltonen]

Anyone?

05.01.2012 15:22, Timo Aaltonen kirjoitti:
>
> 	Hi!
>
>    I'm currently packaging Dogtag et al for Debian and Ubuntu, so I filed
> an intend-to-package bugreport on the Debian bugtracker about osutil. It
> got reviewed, and here's a summary of the issues that were found:
>
> - src/com/netscape/osutil/unixdefs.h has a Netscape copyright, that
> forbids distribution and copying. Is it merely a mistake?
>
> - "Signal.java has one architecture's signal numbers hardcoded in". Is
> it still portable to more obscure architectures?
>
> - the java files have hardcoded library paths, which will break with
> multiarch (http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch)
>
> - "full of error messages printed to stdout / stderr"
>
> - some of the functionality is apparently duplicated from (current)
> standard java? (string to byte conversion was mentioned)
>
>
> so it would be great to see at least the copyright issue sorted out,
> soon, since it prevents inclusion.
>
> link to the original bugreport:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654689
>
> (you can reply there by sending email to 654689 at bugs.debian.org)
>


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