retitle 519466 bundled libitext-java package in pdftk contains copyright restricted files severity 519466 serious found 519466 1.40-1 thanks
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:08:19PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > The pdftk package contains a bundled release of an oldiText > package As you can read at > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236309 > > this package contains files from Sun Inc. with restricted > licenses. which are unfree or contains usage discriminations > again the use on nuclear facilities. ACK. > So we have try to wipe out the bundled iText pacakge > from pdftk and make a build agains the IText-2.1.4 release > which has got a licensing cleanup, so this package is ok from > the view of the Fedora project. I thought the same[1]. I am glad that Fedora worked on it. I will test the pdftk Fedora patches to see whether I can update the pdftk Debian package to use the libitext-java Debian package. > Below, I have listed some othere releated ticket about > this issue. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236309 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485641 Thanks a lot for letting me know. [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/454140#22> Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Debian Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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