[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#884901: RM: libjs-jquery-dotdotdot -- RoM; Upstream changed to non-free license

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

> Howdy Sergio,

Hey, Ben,

> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at sergiodj.net> writes:
> 
> > I had packaged this software because it is a dependency for pagure,
> > another package that I am working on. In the interest of removing
> > non-free dependencies from a Free Software project, I have also filed
> > a bug against upstream pagure asking the project to stop using the
> > "dotdotdot" library:
> >
> >   https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/2844
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> 
> While reading your account of the problem, I was struck by a number of
> actions that need to be done in response to the things you discovered.
> 
> Each time, I read further in your message and saw you tell us you had
> already done them :-) Your message to the Pagure project was very
> helpful.
> 
> Thank you for this analysis, and especially for taking care to do the
> necessary weeding to keep our software freedom.

Thank you for the kind message; it's always a pleasure and matter of
civic duty to keep Debian free :-).

The package has now been removed from Debian, and I'm happy to inform
that pagure is already considering an alternative to replace it.

Cheers,

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