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has caused the Debian Bug report #248545,
regarding xemacs21-basesupport: ps-print output GPL licensing problem
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Package: xemacs21-basesupport
Version: 2003.01.27-1.1
Severity: normal
The ps-print xemacs package included in xemacs21-basesupport generates
printable Postscript, for example with the ps-spool-buffer command.
The output includes two prologue files
/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/etc/ps-print/ps-prin0.ps
/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/etc/ps-print/ps-prin1.ps
which are explicitly licensed under the GPL, and so the output must be
licensed under GPL compatible terms. However, no indication is given
to the user when invoking ps-print of the licensing and so the user may
presume they can distribute the generated Postscript under any terms
they like, unless they happen to read the raw Postscript.
I suspect this may simply be an oversight, and that the upstream authors
would be willing to add an exemption for the generated output. Failing
that, some form of warning should be given.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-586tsc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
Versions of packages xemacs21-basesupport depends on:
ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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Version: 2009.02.17.dfsg.1-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package xemacs21-packages has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/726023
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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