Your message dated Fri, 06 May 2016 05:53:36 +0000
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and subject line Bug#821237: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #771102,
regarding upstream license violation
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Package: abduco
Version: 0.1-2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3
Hi,
abduco is derived from dtach, which is licensed under GPLv2. However,
abduco is licensed under ISC with dtach's copyright notices removed.
While abduco may be considered a rewrite of dtach that just has similar
looking portions of code left in it,
http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise27.html says that:
"Many people have reimplemented computer programs by rewriting them to
replace the source code with code of their own writing. There is no
reason to believe that this would not be a copyright infringement,
particularly if the reimplementer had access to the source code of the
original program, even if none of the original source code remains."
abduco should not be a part of Debian if it is violating dtach's
copyright and license.
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Ned T. Crigler
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Version: 0.1-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package abduco 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 https://bugs.debian.org/821237
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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