• Re: License issue? (Re: Including partman-hfs to the team's git project

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Holger Wansing on Wed May 4 17:00:01 2022
    Hi Holger!

    On 5/4/22 16:35, Holger Wansing wrote:
    It's part of unstable, so in principal, it can be used to build non-free installer
    images.

    For which archs is this used?

    It's currently used on m68k, powerpc and ppc64. But it could be used on amd64 and
    arm64 as well since HFS/HFS+ is in principle useful on any Apple Macintosh computer,
    even the latest ones.

    So even if partman-hfs is not used by default currently, the translations are currently used (translators work on it, if we add partman-hfs to the
    l10n machinery), so I wonder if this introduces a license issue for the translation files?
    (The po files contain the hint:
    "This file is distributed under the same license as debian-installer.")

    This shouldn't introduce any license problems as the partman-hfs package itself is not affected by the license issue. It's just the hfsprogs package that is using the problematic APSL license.

    partman-hfs is just using the same license as debian-installer but it has to live in the contrib section because it depends on a package from the non-free section.

    Adrian

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  • From Holger Wansing@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 4 22:20:01 2022
    Hi,

    Am 4. Mai 2022 16:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>:

    This shouldn't introduce any license problems as the partman-hfs package itself
    is not affected by the license issue. It's just the hfsprogs package that is >using the problematic APSL license.

    partman-hfs is just using the same license as debian-installer but it has to >live in the contrib section because it depends on a package from the non-free >section.

    Sounds reasonable to me.
    Thanks for clarrification.


    Holger

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