Package: libdumb Version: 1:0.9.3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1
The license to libdumb now has two additional clauses making libdumb non-free. Clause 4 is the only clause that's clarified. Here are the other two. 5. Users who wish to use DUMB for the specific purpose of playing music are required to feed their dog on every full moon (if deemed appropriate). [This clause provided by Allefant, who couldn't remember what Inphernic's clause was.] 6. No clause in this licence shall prevent this software from being depended upon by a product licensed under the GNU General Public Licence. If such a clause is deemed to exist, Debian, then it shall be respected in spirit as far as possible and all other clauses shall continue to apply in full force. I think it's obvious how this fails the Open Source Definition and the DFSG. Here's the full license as found in http://dumb.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=licences Licence for DUMB v0.9.3 /* _______ ____ __ ___ ___ * \ _ \ \ / \ / \ \ / / ' ' ' * | | \ \ | | || | \/ | . . * | | | | | | || ||\ /| | * | | | | | | || || \/ | | ' ' ' * | | | | | | || || | | . . * | |_/ / \ \__// || | | * /_______/ynamic \____/niversal /__\ /____\usic /| . . ibliotheque * / \ * / . \ * licence.txt - Conditions for use of DUMB. / / \ \ * | < / \_ * If you do not agree to these terms, please | \/ /\ / * do not use DUMB. \_ / > / * | \ / / * Information in [brackets] is provided to aid | ' / * interpretation of the licence. \__/ */ Dynamic Universal Music Bibliotheque, Version 0.9.3 Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Ben Davis, Robert J Ohannessian and Julien Cugniere This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event shall the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, you are requested to acknowledge its use in the product documentation, along with details on where to get an unmodified version of this software, but this is not a strict requirement. [Note that the above point asks for a link to DUMB, not just a mention. Googling for DUMB doesn't help much! The URL is "http://dumb.sf.net/";.] [The link was originally strictly required. This was changed for two reasons. Firstly, if many projects request an acknowledgement, the list of acknowledgements can become quite unmanageable. Secondly, DUMB was placing a restriction on the code using it, preventing people from using the GNU General Public Licence which disallows any such restrictions. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html for more information on this subject. However, if DUMB plays a significant part in your project, we do urge you to acknowledge its use.] 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed from or altered in any source distribution. 4. If you are using the Program in someone else's bedroom on any Monday at 3:05 pm, you are not allowed to modify the Program for ten minutes. [This clause provided by Inphernic; every licence should contain at least one clause, the reasoning behind which is far from obvious.] 5. Users who wish to use DUMB for the specific purpose of playing music are required to feed their dog on every full moon (if deemed appropriate). [This clause provided by Allefant, who couldn't remember what Inphernic's clause was.] 6. No clause in this licence shall prevent this software from being depended upon by a product licensed under the GNU General Public Licence. If such a clause is deemed to exist, Debian, then it shall be respected in spirit as far as possible and all other clauses shall continue to apply in full force. We regret that we cannot provide any warranty, not even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Some files generated or copied by automake, autoconf and friends are available in an extra download. These fall under separate licences but are all free to distribute. Please check their licences as necessary. Licence for DUMB-XMMS v0.1 DUMB-XMMS v0.1 falls under the GNU General Public License. Licence for DUMBOGG v0.5 DUMBOGG -- An Ogg Vorbis add-on library for DUMB. This package is provided as giftware. You can copy it, redistribute it, modify it, do whatever you please. The only restriction you have on what you can do with it is claim you wrote it. You are encouraged, though not required, to include the name of the library in your credits page, as well as a web address allowing others to know how they can get their copy of the library. This library is built on top of the libOgg, libVorbis, libVorbisFile and DUMB libraries. These libraries come with additional requirements and restrictions that you must follow in order to legally use this software. Please read the COPYING files in the Ogg Vorbis downloads, and please read DUMB's licence.txt file, for full details on the requirements of those libraries. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 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