Package: jove Version: 4.16.0.52-1 Severity: serious The license for jove does not comply to DFSG. In the jove package the following copyright notice is found:
=== /usr/share/doc/jove/copyright This package was debianized by Cord Beermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:36:36 +0100. It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/cs/ftp/pub/hugh/jove-dev/ Copyright: ######################################################################## # This program is Copyright (C) 1986-1999 by Jonathan Payne. JOVE is # # provided to you without charge, and with no warranty. You may give # # away copies of JOVE, including sources, provided that this notice is # # included in all the files. # ######################################################################## === The does not comply to Debian Free Software Guidelines. Free Software should explicitly allow modifications to the program which tha above copyright doesn't do. This breaks DFSG clause 3. Jove should be removes from the main section af the archieve and put into non-free. Author could proberly be convinced that he should use a better license instead maybe the 2-clause BSD license (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html) -- Når folk spørger mig, om jeg er nørd, bliver jeg altid ilde til mode og svarer lidt undskyldende: "Nej, jeg bruger RedHat". -- Allan Olesen på dk.edb.system.unix
