iscan license question

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 23 January 2006 at 23:54, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:48 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Monday, 23 January 2006 at 23:36, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:31 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > Can iscan parts covered by this license
> > > > http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/license/EAPL_e.html
> > > > be included in Fedora Extras?
> > > 
> > > Yes, as long as you have source code for all of the bits.
> > 
> > That'll be a 'no' then, as they are all binary.
> > 
> > > Don't include any binary only bits, and we dodge the iffy RE clause.
> > 
> > Which is what I'll do and make a similar package for livna, including only
> > the binary parts.
> 
> That seems like the best plan of action.

Would be, if iscan could be packaged that way. Unfortunately, it still requires
a non-free, binary-only library libesmod.so.1. So, is it OK to package that
library even if we don't have its source? I've heard from a reasonably
reliable source that iscan is included in Fedora Directory Server. ;)

R.

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