Springlobby, spring-engine, spring-mods-kernelpanic packages in New queue

[James Westby]

On Mon Sep 07 01:00:23 +0100 2009 Scott Ritchie wrote:
> The initial versions of these packages were uploaded long before feature
> freeze, however they were rejected due to incompleteness in the
> copyright file.  I've since cleaned it up and reuploaded - I was told
> this was ok.  If I need to file a Freeze Exception let me know.

Are these packages intended for multiverse?

spring-engine is non-free, so will have to go there if at all:

  Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
  requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
  they can be incorporated into the canonical version.


springlobby appears to be undistributable in its current form:

    Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All rights
    reserved. License to copy and use this software is granted provided that
    it is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest
    Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software or
    this function. License is also granted to make and use derivative works
    provided that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data
    Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning
    or referencing the derived work.

which is an extra restriction, which is disallowed by the GPL, which is
the predominant license of the package.

In addition, you don't reproduce the warranty disclaimer debian/copyright,
as required by the GPL.

I haven't rejected the packages yet, as I would like a second opinion.

Thanks,

James