Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 desmume: clarify ConvertUTF license header
Am 01.06.2018 um 22:25 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:21 PM, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> Am 01.06.2018 um 22:16 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: >> [...] >>> No it is not a lintian bug. Unicode withdraw this code before applying >>> the license change. >>> >>> Exhibit 1 does not apply in this case. >>> >>>> >>>> http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 >>>> >>>> Also see https://bugs.debian.org/864729 for more information. In my >>>> opinion this is merely a documentation bug but not a Policy violation. >> >> No. This is not correct. Please read #864729 and >> >> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/google-breakpad/issues/detail?id=270 >> >> why we are allowed to change the license too. > > Ok see it. It is nevertheless a bug (not serious) because this code is > buggy and supperseded by ICU. Did you report this upstream ? No. I'm not a regular uploader of desmume, just someone who dislikes that we remove files or entire packages because of wrong or misinformed assumptions. > Can you send a bug to lintian ? Will try to cook something This issue was already reported to the Lintian developers in Debian bug #852196 and #854209. You have even sent a comment respectively marked those bugs as moreinfo. In my opinion Lintian is wrong here. This should be a warning at best because apparently it leads to confusions whether ConvertUTF.c is licensed under a DFSG-free license or not. The discussion in #864729 is the best summary why we can just relicense the file to the new permissive Unicode license. Markus
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