Bug#893561: libtablelayout-java: license does not seem to meet the DFSG

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:09:47 +0200 Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> Le 28/03/2018 à 23:34, Francesco Poli a écrit :
> 
> > In other words, can someone develop a fork of libtablelayout-java (with
> > the namespace changed to a different one) which works as a drop-in
> > replacement for the original libtablelayout-java?
> 
> If you change the namespace it can't be used as a drop-in replacement.
> 
> But since the Debian libtablelayout-java package is already a fork of
> the upstream TableLayout project using a different namespace (as
> required by the license for derivative works), there is no need to
> change again the namespace for anyone modifying the libtablelayout-java
> package.

So there's no way to create a modified version of libtablelayout-java
that can be used as a drop-in replacement for the original upstream
TableLayout.

This seems to confirm that the namespace-change clause has functional
consequences, as I suspected... 


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