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Hi Tim, Dave,<br>
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The Debian Med Packaging Team want to know if they can backport
GLAM2 improvements (presuming there are any?) in the MEME Suite to
the more permissively licensed GLAM2 repository?<br>
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~James<br>
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<td>Re: [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:j.johnson@imb.uq.edu.au">j.johnson@imb.uq.edu.au</a>: Re: Installation of binary
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<td>Tim Booth <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:avarus@fastmail.fm"><avarus@fastmail.fm></a></td>
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<td>Andreas Tille <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:andreas@fam-tille.de"><andreas@fam-tille.de></a></td>
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James Johnson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:j.johnson@imb.uq.edu.au"><j.johnson@imb.uq.edu.au></a></td>
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<pre>Hi,
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 06:08:08PM +0000, Tim Booth wrote:
> > Yes, I did start looking at Meme but quickly realised it was a lot more
> > work than I thought to do a proper job on it. I think all I wanted to
> > do in the first instance was to get an updated glam2 binary package
> > based upon the improved glam2 source within the meme code. I guess this
> > is now the definitive glam2 as the original standalone source hasn't
> > been updated since 2008.
>
> We might try to do some comparison. Charles previously mentioned that
> we should keep the glam2 package from Debian which is free (PD) and meme
> currently has a non-free license (according to DFSG). So if glam2 inside
> meme is basically unchanged it might be reasonable to ignore the code
> inside meme (or asking upstream for permission to backport the changes.)
A quick "diff" across the original glam2 vs. the meme glam2 suggests
that several new options have been added for meme - see
src/glam2_args.c.
I would imagine that scripts within meme rely on these options. In
fact, a quick grepping shows that scripts/glam2_webservice.pl.in calls
"glam2 -M" which is an option added for meme. I've not looked for other
examples.
I hope that upstream can at least be persuaded to put their changes to
glam2 under a free license like the original glam2. They may not be
legally bound to do so but it would be highly disingenuous of them to
refuse.
Cheers,
TIM
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