On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:23:16PM +0100, Kake wrote:
On Mon 07 May 2012, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
We are, yes: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664561
There are also problems to be solved with Geo::Coordinates::OSGB in that the licensing of the data included from the Ordnance Survey is unclear:
That's a shame. We can probably speed up the Template issue by prodding Andy, but I'm not sure what we can do about the other thing. Can we get round it by installing Geo::Coordinates::OSGB separately (maybe with cpanm) or does the Debian package insist on all its Perl dependecies being Debian-packaged as well? This affects the Cambridge guide as well as the Oxford one.
There are two questions:
0) do the statements on the web site correspond to the licence for that data? 1) is the licence DFSG-free[0]? 2) can it be altered to be made so? 3) how does the logo requirement relate to library applications?
If the answer to the 0) is yes and the answer to 1) is no, then we can put the package in non-free, which would be irritating (and I'd want to make sure it was possible to use openguides without having to install it if not actually using it) but not the end of the world. Of course a good follow-up question then would be 2)
If the answer to 3) is that it's fine to use it as long as the end application displays the logo, we'd need to add support into OpenGuides for doing that.
I think we just need a good way to ask these questions, probably of the OS themselves (apart from 1, which needs to be answered by the community).
[0] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines