Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

control: retitle -1 wily: Incomplete d/copyright
thanks

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Alteholz 
 wrote:
> thanks a lot for your bug report. Please have a look at Doc/sam/README. In 
> this file the license of libframe and libXg is clearly mentioned. This 
> license is already added to the debian/copyright of the package.

That's what I get for not reading the documentation :)
Thank you for finding that.
 
> As you are right that some copyright holders are missing and need to be 
> added, I am not closing this bug. Unfortunately the package is orphaned, 
> so maybe you want to take care of it?

Yep I was actually planning on adopting this package before the bug.
I'll formally go through the ITA process and begin working on the package
as soon as I finish this email.

Thanks,
Jacob 

Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Alteholz 
 wrote:
> control: severity -1 normal
> thanks
> 
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> thanks a lot for your bug report. Please have a look at Doc/sam/README. In 
> this file the license of libframe and libXg is clearly mentioned. This 
> license is already added to the debian/copyright of the package.
> 
> As you are right that some copyright holders are missing and need to be 
> added, I am not closing this bug. Unfortunately the package is orphaned, 
> so maybe you want to take care of it?
> 
>Thorsten
> 
> 
> 

Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Alteholz 
 wrote:
> control: severity -1 normal
> thanks
> 
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> thanks a lot for your bug report. Please have a look at Doc/sam/README. In 
> this file the license of libframe and libXg is clearly mentioned. This 
> license is already added to the debian/copyright of the package.
> 
> As you are right that some copyright holders are missing and need to be 
> added, I am not closing this bug. Unfortunately the package is orphaned, 
> so maybe you want to take care of it?
> 
>Thorsten
> 
> 
> 

Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Alteholz 
 wrote:
> control: severity -1 normal
> thanks
> 
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> thanks a lot for your bug report. Please have a look at Doc/sam/README. In 
> this file the license of libframe and libXg is clearly mentioned. This 
> license is already added to the debian/copyright of the package.
> 
> As you are right that some copyright holders are missing and need to be 
> added, I am not closing this bug. Unfortunately the package is orphaned, 
> so maybe you want to take care of it?
> 
>Thorsten
> 
> 
> 

Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Alteholz 
 wrote:
> control: severity -1 normal
> thanks
> 
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> thanks a lot for your bug report. Please have a look at Doc/sam/README. In 
> this file the license of libframe and libXg is clearly mentioned. This 
> license is already added to the debian/copyright of the package.
> 
> As you are right that some copyright holders are missing and need to be 
> added, I am not closing this bug. Unfortunately the package is orphaned, 
> so maybe you want to take care of it?
> 
>Thorsten
> 
> 
> 

Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Alteholz 
 wrote:
> control: severity -1 normal
> thanks
> 
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> thanks a lot for your bug report. Please have a look at Doc/sam/README. In 
> this file the license of libframe and libXg is clearly mentioned. This 
> license is already added to the debian/copyright of the package.
> 
> As you are right that some copyright holders are missing and need to be 
> added, I am not closing this bug. Unfortunately the package is orphaned, 
> so maybe you want to take care of it?
> 
>Thorsten
> 
> 
> 

Bug#872866: wily: Appears to contain non-free code

[Jacob Adams]

Package: wily
Version: 0.13.33-2
Severity: serious
Justification: 2.1.1

According to wily's debian/copyright the entire work is licensed under the 
Artistic License.
However, according the files in libframe and libXg appear to be proprietary:

/* Copyright (c) 1992 AT - All rights reserved. */

At bare minimum debian/copyright has to be updated with the correct license for 
these files.
If they are actually proprietary as they appear, this package should be removed 
from Debian.

Given the current state of the wily package, I suspect no one will ever respond 
to this bug.
Therefore, the severity is higher than it probably should be for a simple 
d/copyright mistake.
(assuming those files aren't actually proprietary)

However, I've found several copies of this library online in other projects and 
they contain the
same or slightly different (1998 Lucent Technologies) copyright notices. 

I would rather not remove working software from Debian, but it really seems 
like this package is non-free.

Sorry,
Jacob