[hunchentoot-devel] Patches in the Hunchentoot Debian package

Luca Capello luca at pca.it
Sun Jun 15 19:16:36 UTC 2008


Hi all!

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:12:03 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to the list and I'm posting from
> Gmane.

Still valid :-)

> The Debian package for Hunchentoot lacks three files because of
> licensing issues:
>
> - doc/hunchentoot.gif (as well as test/favicon.ico), because CC
>     Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-by-sa) is considered non-free by Debian
>     (see http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html)
>
>   FWIW, version 3.0 of the same license would be acceptable:
>
>     http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses

After my post, Uwe von Loh relicensed the Hunchentoot logo under
CC-by-sa 3.0 US, which means that now Debian can distribute it as well.
Many thanks to Uwe!

> - 01_replace-nonfree-logo-in-documentation.patch, the logo have been
>   replaced by the word "[logo]" to preserve the link in doc/index.html
>
> - 02_remove-nonfree-favicon-from-test-file.patch, any reference to the
>   favicon has been simply removed

For the reason above, these two patches are no more included in the
Debian package, which is actually waiting in the Debian NEW queue [1]
because of the name change for the binary package [2].

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-common-lisp-devel/2008-June/000678.html
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