Fwd: kiax_0.8.4-3_i386.changes REJECTED

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 09:47:21AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Saturday 01 October 2005 03:33, Mark Purcell wrote:
> > George,
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> > We have setup a shared working enviroment at
> > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/kiax is you would like to help out
> > directly with the Debian package.
> >
> > You can request an account at http://alioth.debian.org and then we can set
> > you up with svn commit access.
> 
> Sure. I have been registered alioth user since 2004-10-27. My login name is 
> danchev-guest and I agree to help out as much as I can. I'll join the mailing 
> list also.
> 
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:49, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > Hi Maintainer,
> >
> > sorry, rejected for now.
> > The source contains lib/iLBC, which at least has a rfc3951.txt, which
> > license is non-free. Also all the other source files there state a (C) by
> > Internet Society (2004), *All Rights Reserved*. Looking at the name i doubt
> > its free, and searching for the library name got me to a site, having a
> > license link[1][2] which starts so horrible non-free that I stopped reading
> > it.
> 
> Good catch. We have missed that one within the upstream tarball of 
> kiax-0.8.4.tar.bz2 as found at SF. I will ask debian-legal for advise about 
> iLBC but as a freeware license [1] it doesn't sound good enough even the 
> redistribution is allowed since it limits the commercial use at least. Anyway 
> that's an iaxclient issue shipped with the upstream kiax tarball (the lib/ 
> directory), but we have already had iaxclient packages in Debian archive 
> (iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725) without lib/iLBC. While looking at the kiax 0.8.4 
> sources I realized that it can compile with the lib/ directory from 
> iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725 debian source package (which I believe is DFSG'ed). 
> In fact it did and works, but that needs a close investigaton to see what we 
> lose without iLBC. I would like to follow the shared library way Mikael 
> Magnusson suggested at bug #319201 and build depend on libiaxclient-dev while 
> educate kiax of using it.

Does this affect Asterisk?

> 
> > Next issue is that your debian/copyright is wrong, its missing a bit
> > of license information. You need to list *all* different copyright holders
> > and licenses that are in your sourcepackage.
> > Missing are at least lib/libspeex (which has at least 2 different licenses,
> > maybe more).,
> 
> Agreed. I had a look at excellent iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725/debian/copyright 
> file and it also doesn't mention lib/libspeex copyright holders and licenses. 
> I believe it should be fix there also.

Any reason not to use the existing speex package?

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