Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
There is upstream activity, at http://xgraph.org, which I'm looking into. If nothing happens I think the package can go, but please queue this up another few weeks... Cheers, --Barak.
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 at 10:51:50 +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > (xgraph does so little, it is tempting to drop it and just replicate its > functionality in something more modern and extensible.) 3 years later, I think it's time to remove this package from unstable. This would also require removal of cl-rlc, which is the only reverse dependency. xgraph and cl-rlc haven't been in testing since late 2013, apart from accidentally getting let back into testing by a recent BTS bug. I'll open the necessary RM: RoQA bugs unless one of the affected maintainers (cc'd) plans to address #705152 in the near future. S
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
Any progress here? Today it's one year since I sent my first message. Naturally this got buried. Thanks for the reminder. (xgraph does so little, it is tempting to drop it and just replicate its functionality in something more modern and extensible.) Cheers, --Barak. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
Any progress here? Today it's one year since I sent my first message. Ulrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
Hi! So I suppose I will have to dust off my email archives from ... longer ago than I care to think, and try to figure it out. Are there any updates on this? It would be nice to find a quick solution here, we're very close to release :). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
A *long* time ago, I went through a chain of contacts and got to someone who had the authority and desire to take care of this. I don't remember the details: whether they said they'd do something (relicense or a letter or whatever) and it slipped off their radar, or if their email was sufficient and I forgot to put it in debian/copyright, or what. But I do remember I was not worried about it. So I suppose I will have to dust off my email archives from ... longer ago than I care to think, and try to figure it out. Anyway, thanks for pointing this out. --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: A *long* time ago, I went through a chain of contacts and got to someone who had the authority and desire to take care of this. I don't remember the details: whether they said they'd do something (relicense or a letter or whatever) and it slipped off their radar, or if their email was sufficient and I forgot to put it in debian/copyright, or what. But I do remember I was not worried about it. So I suppose I will have to dust off my email archives from ... longer ago than I care to think, and try to figure it out. I went through and tried removing derivative.c, and it looks like since DO_DER isn't defined when Debian builds it, we don't actually ship any of that code as a binary package. The only real problem is the stuff in the source package. [So while annoying and kind of pointless, stripping out the PW changes in the source package should be fairly easy and won't really change anything.] Don Armstrong -- Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall Find thy body by the wall! -- Matthew Arnold http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705152: Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.]
Package: xgraph Severity: serious Version: 12.1-15 Ulrich Mueller reported this to debian-le...@lists.debian.org. FWICT, at least the contents of the source package are not distributable by Debian in main. It's possible that the binary packages do not contain any work which is copyrighted by Paul Walker, but the source packages at least need to be altered to remove this non-free, non-distributable code. [If I and Ulrich Mueller has misinterpreted what is going on here, please let us know, and if at all possible, update debian/copyright to explain in some future upload so we and others don't revisit this erroneously in the future.] On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Ulrich Mueller wrote: The original tarball contains a file copyright.h, which states that additions made by Paul Walker are non-free (for education, academic research and non-commercial purposes, provided [...] that no charge is made for such copies). Heh. That's not going to work. If that's actually the case, this code has to be removed from the orig.tar.gz that Debian distributes. Now the Debian changeset patches copyright.h and removes everything but the first two paragraphs from the license, i.e. the parts concerning the Paul Walker extensions. However, I don't see that the corresponding code would be removed. Especially, derivative.c is still there, which says: This entire routine written by PW. Same for the animation code; there are comments with a PW tag at several places. Therefore I wonder how this change to copyright.h came about, and if this package really is Free Software? I doubt that it is, or at least, the copyright and changes aren't documented well enough for Debian to be able to properly distribute this. [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/licenses/as-is?view=markup [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452914 Don Armstrong -- Tell me something interesting about yourself. Lie if you have to. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
