Re: Need advice: Package has a restrictive non-free modified MIT license
Aryan Karamtoth <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:14:20 +0530
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On 21/07/25 23:17, Luke W Faraone wrote: > On 21/07/2025 17:50, Aryan Karamtoth wrote: >> I was also suggested by people on debian-mentors to consider adding >> it to non-free sources but it wouldn't make any sense for a python >> library to be a non-free package when the sole purpose of it is to be >> used by other dependent packages which might be free. > > You always have the option of packaging it in non-free and placing the > other dependent packages in contrib. > > Cheers, > Luke Faraone Hi Luke, I do not wish to go that route as I want this package to be used by everyone without putting their packages in contrib or non-free. Either way, this package was only used for some tests and I excluded those tests in the dependent package. The author of this library just responded to my request to change the license [1] and said he will talk to some people and come to a decision about it. If the author isn't willing to reconsider the license decision even after further discussion then I'll have no option but to drop the package as this is a python library that's meant to be a free software. [1] https://github.com/BR1py/itertree/issues/40 -- Regards, Aryan Karamtoth Debian Contributor IRC: SpaciousCoder78 GPG Fingerprint: 7A7D 9308 2BD1 9BAF A83B 7E34 FE90 07B8 ED64 0421
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