[Debian-iot-maintainers] openzwave-controlpanel is marked for autoremoval from testing

Nicolas Mora nicolas at babelouest.org
Thu Jan 9 19:51:21 GMT 2025


Hello team,

Concerning this autorm bug, I was going to push a fixed package but I 
stopped when I saw the license of the code.

the debian/copyright states that "License resembles W3C license, but 
does not grant permission to distribute with modification."

Indeed, the license says this:
[...]Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its 
documentation, without modification[...]

Which, if we want to respect the idea of the license, makes patches 
forbidden.

There is another repository called ozw-admin [1] which has the same 
functionnalities according to openzwave-controlpanel readme and using 
the GPL v3 license. This program doesn't seem to be packaged in debian

I'm still using the openzwave library so I'm interested in keeping the 
openzwave environment in debian alive.

My idea right now is to remove the package openzwave-controlpanel from 
debian and add the package ozw-admin instead, hopefully before trixie 
freeze.

Do you have other ideas or suggestions?

[1] https://github.com/OpenZWave/ozw-admin



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