Oolite Bulletins

Okay, so I noticed there's a topic in the Ubuntu forums to suggest new stuff for Eft, their next release (six months from now)

Now, since Winston proclaimed 2006 is the year of Oolite, wouldn't it be nice to see it in the popular Ubuntu repos, now that it is in Debian?

My question is: what should be done to make this possible? Or rather: would it be worth the effort to try and get it approved?

I think it's a great idea. Especially as an Ubuntu user.

I think I suggested this a few months back in the midst of my 'I <3 UBUNTU' phase, but I think someone said that the licence might not be compatible...

I may be mistaken though.

Rxke wrote:

My question is: what should be done to make this possible?

The only thing that would need doing is the license changing to an OSI-approved open source license, such as the GPL or similar.

However, if Ubuntu has a "non-free" repo like Debian has, there's no reason that it can't be included in that.

winston wrote:

Rxke wrote:

My question is: what should be done to make this possible?

The only thing that would need doing is the license changing to an OSI-approved open source license, such as the GPL or similar.

I am not sure, but I think not all OSI aproved licenses are fit for Ubuntu.
(This is for sure true for Debian where they have to fit the DFSG - see license list.)

From a technical POV, the Debian source package should be compiled on an Ububtu system and the result be uploaded in the Ubuntu mirrors.

winston wrote:

However, if Ubuntu has a "non-free" repo like Debian has, there's no reason that it can't be included in that.

As I said it before, a fit license should allow (as a suplemental thing to the current license) comercial distribution in compilations. This would suffice for DFSG compatibility.

OTOH, I am not sure if the multiverse component should be an equivalent of the non-free section in Debian.