Hi Aryan,
On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 07:24 +0530, Aryan Karamtoth wrote:
The exact restrictive policy of the license is given below:
"Human protect patch:
The program and its derivative work will neither be modified or
executed to harm any human being nor through
inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
This undoubtedly makes the license and by extension the software non-
free.
[...]
Hence, this is an important package that needs to be in Debian.
I need advice on how to proceed with this package as its a very
important one and the downstream packages of this upstream package are
very useful tools that need to be in Debian.
I see you've already asked the author to reconsider, which is a good
first step.
v1.0.0 is the last version that uses the Expat (MIT) license unmodified
and is therefore free, so you can package that version of itertree
without issue and upload to main (though you won't be able to update it further). You might have to adapt rdeps or patch it to be suitable
though.
--
Maytham
IANAL
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