Bug#342200: argouml: Please advise

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> Hi all,

Yo Wolfgang,

> Well, I am basically interested in argouml so I did a little research
> on the new upstream some time ago.
> 
> The main problem is that they - don't ask me why - they started to use
> netbeans stuff for the uml model implementation.

Because ocl is no more maintained for many years now and they are stick
in UML 1.x.

> The problem is that netbeans stuff is licensed under the SPL
> alone which with a quick google search is likely to be
> undistributable by debian.

Strange, the SPL license is an "official" Open Source Initiative open
license. I thought the problem was with the JMI library which is not
re-distribuable, but it's only interfaces and I re-wrote it and packaged
it: libgnujmi-java. So it could be possible to use the Netbeans stuff
*without* the Sun's JMI stuff and replace it with the GNU JMI interfaces.

> So the first thing before a new upstream version will enter debian
> is to check if there is a clear status for the SPL with debian-legal.
> Thats something which still has to be done. And I have currently no
> time for some legal discussions.

If SPL is free for Debian, we still have to do the split of MDR (the
part of NetBeans they use in ArgoUML) (package it but without the Sun's
JMI), change the dependency and cross our fingers ;-)

Cheers,

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