epsoneplijs rejected
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 16:58:47 GMT 2007
Hin-Tak, I have debianized your Epson-EPL-"L" driver and proposed it as
a package for Ubuntu Linux. Unfortunately, there are problems with the
copyright/license, see below. Can you fix this and put out a new
release? I would like to have the driver in Ubuntu.
Till
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have rejected your epsoneplijs upload. debian/copyright claims that
> parts of the source is under the GPL, but there is no evidence to
> support that in the sources themselves. Furthermore, if it actually
> is under the GPL, there needs to be a copy of the GPL in the
> orig.tar.gz. Furthermore, your debian/copyright reads:
>
> The content of "epl_compress.c" may have issues with Epson which we are
> not yet sure about. Therefore we hereby explicitly ask whoever uses the
> content of that file, NOT to use it for any purpose other than in relation
> to the Epson EPL series of printers.
>
> this would render the package non-free and it would go to multiverse,
> and I can see no supporting evidence in the file itself for your
> claim.
>
> Please get those issues fixed and upload again.
>
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