Hi

for the 2.0.1 (released in few days), verdana.ttf will be deleted.
fusionchart and jpgraph will be substituted by elycharts (
http://elycharts.com/) MIT licence.

best regards

--Erwan

2011/8/30 Pierre Chifflier <[email protected]>

> [adding OCS team to CC list]
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:43:55PM +0200, Remi Collet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on packaging ocsinventory for another distribution.
> >
> > For now, I'm stick with version 1.3.3 as 2.0 seems breaking licensing
> > rules.
> >
> > First it bundle 2 libraries, I don't know exactly if debian policy
> > allow this, but...
> >
> > - FusionChartsFree
> > - jpgraph
> >
> > For jpgraph, it breaks licensing.
> >
> > 1/ QPL is not compatible with GPL
> >
> > 2/ "QPL for non commercial" is not a "free" license
> >
> > Read :
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281535
> >
> > File /usr/share/ocsinventory-reports/fonts/verdana.ttf seems also not
> > a free file...
>
> Hi Remi (and others),
>
> This is indeed a serious issue, which can make the package impossible to
> be redistributed by Debian. I'm opening a bug on the Debian BTS
> (#639833).
>
> I'll see if all these files can be removed from the tarball without
> altering functions.
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but AFAICT the QPL is incompatible with the GPL [1]
> [2] if the files are not distributed under a dual license.
>
> To the OCS team: what is the official position about this license issue ?
>
> Pierre
>
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Q_Public_License_.28QPL.29.2C_Version_1.0
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Public_License
>
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