Package: netdiag Version: 1.0-13 Severity: minor In doc/netdiag/copyright the license of strobe is stated as GPL and claimed to be taken from strobe-1.06.tar.gz. The upstream archive does not mention GPL, instead the manpage and the COPYRIGHT file say:
--copy-- Copyright (c) Julian Assange 1995-1999, All rights reserved. This software has only three copyright restrictions. Firstly, this copyright notice must remain intact and unmodified. Secondly, the Author, Julian Assange, must be appropriately and prominantly credited in any documentation associated with any derived work. Thirdly unless otherwise negotiated with the author, you may not sell this program commercially, reasonable distribution costs excepted. Use and or distribution of this software implies acceptance of the above. --paste-- This is a bit nitpicking as the author's intention seems to be GPL-compatible. The wording, however, is not GPL-compatible: ''... you may not sell this program commercially, reasonable distribution costs excepted.´´ GPL explicitly allows selling source code for any price. I suggest to replace the "STROBE:" section in doc/netdiag/copyright with the above custom license boilerplate and to remove any further statements (if existing) about strobe being GPL. This bug even made it into German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strobe&oldid=105860698 (infobox says GPL, references debian.org) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (50, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages netdiag depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpcap0.8 1.1.1-2+squeeze1 system interface for user-level pa ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system netdiag recommends no packages. netdiag suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
