Rejecting iceape

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 11 11:39:27 BST 2007


Hi,

I had to reject iceape because the tarball contains files which no
source code is provided for:

./toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/Processes.dll
./toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/ShellLink.dll
./toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/nsProcess.dll
./widget/src/os2/res/*.ptr

and perhaps also

./xpfe/bootstrap/macbuild/Contents/Resources/*.icns

Thus the orig.tar.gz is not distributable under the GPL/LGPL licenses (as
advertised in debian/copyright). 

MPL section 3.2 mandates the "Availability of Source Code" (with
"Source Code" being "the preferred form of the Covered Code for making
modifications to it"), thus this also violates the MPL.

Please repack the orig.tar.gz to either include the sources for those,
or just drop those files (I guess they are not needed for a
Debian/Ubuntu package). Please also pass this to upstream, since I
guess they ship those files in their tarballs as well.

Thanks,

Martin

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Ubuntu Developer   http://www.ubuntu.com
Debian Developer   http://www.debian.org
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