Bug#617931: gmsh: multiple licensing issues

[Francesco Poli]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:19:07 +0100 Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 19:48 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > I think that this part of the issue will be relevant for the m68k
> > architecture, as long as gmsh is still distributed for that unofficial
> > architecture.
> > Something that is *not* legally distributable does *not* magically
> > become distributable, just because the architecture is not officially
> > supported by the Debian Project...
> 
> m68k is not just "unofficial" or "not officially supported".  It's not
> been part of Debian, nor hosted on debian.org systems, since sarge was
> archived.  Debian is not distributing any packages on m68k and what
> others might be doing on that architecture is not relevant to RC bugs in
> Debian.

Hello Adam,
thanks for following up on this.

However, your reply somewhat puzzles me.

I thought that ftp.debian-ports.org was an official Debian Project
service for unsupported architectures:
http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-m68k/main/g/gmsh/
includes
http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-m68k/main/g/gmsh/gmsh_2.3.0.dfsg-1_m68k.deb

That's why I claimed that the Debian Project is still distributing
gmsh/2.3.0.dfsg-1 built for the m68k architecture...

I thought that the situation for m68k was somewhat similar to that of
the non-free and contrib archives: not part of the Debian distribution,
but nonetheless distributed by the Debian Project through its official
infrastructure...

Could you please clarify?
Thanks for your time.


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