[Debian-med-packaging] Please provide a download page for Random123 that is not enforcing acceptance of a license

[John Salmon]

Thanks for packaging this for the Debian community.  We
appreciate that this will increase the reach of Random123
enormously.

I'll mention your concerns about the CGI script to management
and if I can make any headway, I'll get back to you.

John Salmon

On 03/14/2017 04:44 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I intend to package Random123 for Debian since it is uses in a project
> that is interesting for Debian Med.  (Debian Med is a group inside Debian
> with the goal to package free software in life sciences and medicine for
> official Debian.)
>
> I noticed that you are doing some means to ensure that people who want
> to download Random123 source code from your web site have really read
> the license.  I can understand your intention but to my experience this
> does not really scare away any "bad guys" and is causing disadvantages
> for those who intend to respect the license.
>
> When packaging a project for Debian the license is included in the
> binary package.  However, the fact that we are distributing Random123
> from the Debian mirror might make your means to make people explicitly
> accept the license void since everybody can download the code from
> debian.org mirrors.
>
> Moreover there is some automatic tool in Debian which raises a flag for
> the maintainer if a new version is released.  Unfortunately this tool
> can not answer your CGI script so we will not know about new versions of
> Random123 which could lead to the situation that the Debian packaged
> version will not be in sync with your releases.  That's why I wonder
> whether you might like to consider skipping this confirmation step for
> the download to avoid this situation.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for providing Random123 as Free Software
>
>        Andreas.
>

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