Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 08:36 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This more general problem is very hard to impossible to solve, > since it would mean patching every single build toolchain and > source package [...] Are the upstream developers not already legally required to include all this information into

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 14:20 -0400, John Thorvald Wodder II wrote: > - bat (In addition to the type of problem discussed above, the source code for >   bat has an Apache 2.0 `NOTICE` file, yet this is not included in the .deb >   package.) Please file a severity serious bug report against bat

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 14:20 -0400, John Thorvald Wodder II wrote: > I suspect that this problem applies to all programs written in Go or Rust that > Debian distributes.  Is Debian handling dependency licenses for these packages > incorrectly, or is there something I'm missing? Your analysis is

Re: Bug#903999: RFC about DFSG-freeness of PHP license [Re: Bug#903999: ITP: php-doc -- Documentation for PHP]

2023-09-26 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
Hello, Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. I talked extensively to Athos during DebConf and, after looking at the multiple licenses and nuances involved in this problem I believe: 1) Athos followed precisely the instructions from ftp-masters

License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-26 Thread John Thorvald Wodder II
I am a concerned citizen who, while looking into prior art for handling dependency licenses in order to inform some of my own projects, stumbled upon what appear to be systemic license violations in the Debian repositories regarding dependencies of statically-linked compiled binary programs