Bug#342200: argouml: Please advise

[Wolfgang Baer]

Hi Arnaud,

Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> 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.

They still target UML 1.4 with the MDL stuff.
> 
> 
>>>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. 

That doesn't mean that it is DFSG free at all.

Wolfgang