Bug#816215: wpagui: When run, wpa_gui just shows an empty grey window

[Riley Baird]

Package: wpagui
Version: 2.3-2.3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

When I run wpa_gui (as root), a window appears, which is just filled with grey.
I have included the terminal output and a screenshot of the problem.

X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
  Extension:130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
  Resource id:  0x320001e
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 5 (X_ShmCreatePixmap)
  Resource id:  0xc4
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x3200024
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x3200024
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x3200024
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
  Extension:130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
  Resource id:  0x140
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 5 (X_ShmCreatePixmap)
  Resource id:  0xc4
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x320002b
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
  Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
  Resource id:  0x320002b
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 2 (X_ShmDetach)
  Resource id:  0x320002b

Sorry if this turns out to be a problem on my end.

Yours thankfully,

Riley Baird



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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages wpagui depends on:
ii  libc6  2.21-4
ii  libgcc11:5.3.1-3
ii  libqt4-svg 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5
ii  libqtcore4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5
ii  libqtgui4  4:4.8.7+dfsg-5
ii  libstdc++6 5.3.1-3
ii  wpasupplicant  2.3-2.3

Versions of packages wpagui recommends:
ii  menu  2.1.47

wpagui suggests no packages.

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Bug#805226: marked as pending

[Riley Baird]

tag 805226 pending
thanks

Hello,

Bug #805226 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:


http://git.debian.org/?p=python-modules/packages/praw.git;a=commitdiff;h=834c170

---
commit 834c1709043ee638dc11fa6a05e196f8d641e07e
Author: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch>
Date:   Sun Nov 29 20:44:21 2015 +1100

Noted changes in d/changelog

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b7035a5..e7d9ed4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ praw (3.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
   * New upstream release
   * Removed debian/patches/change-info-section.patch, as the changes
 have been integrated upstream
+  * Disabled tests (Closes: #805226)
 
  -- Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch>  Sun, 11 
Oct 2015 15:47:27 +1100
 

Bug#805932: libsigc++-2.0-dev: Return-statement with a value, in function returning 'void'

[Riley Baird]

Package: libsigc++-2.0-dev
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Causes more than one other package to FTBFS

Hi,

I currently maintain granule. In the process of C++11 migration, I have come
across the following error message:

/usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/adaptor_trait.h:256:21: error: return-
statement with a value, in function returning 'void' [-fpermissive]
{ return functor_(); }

I had thought that it was a problem with my package, but then I noticed that it
was also present in another, unrelated package (#805681), so I think that it
might be a problem with libsigc++-2.0-dev.

Thanks,

Riley

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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libsigc++-2.0-dev depends on:
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5  2.6.2-1
ii  pkg-config 0.29-2

libsigc++-2.0-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libsigc++-2.0-dev suggests:
pn  libsigc++-2.0-doc  

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Bug#805203: Update on FTBFS

[Riley Baird]

I've started working on the FTBFS issue. The compilation issue
mentioned in this bug can be fixed by using the patch attached to this
email.

However, after this patch is applied, compilation fails for another
reason. I've included details of this in #805932.

Index: build/src/DeckManager.h
===
--- build.orig/src/DeckManager.h
+++ build/src/DeckManager.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #include 
-#include 
+#include 
 
 #include "Granule-main.h"

Bug#800693: Fix for wicd-curses/python-urwid

[Riley Baird]

The people at Arch seem to have a patch for this issue:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1481016


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Bug#796863: libassa3.5-5v5 and libassa-3.5-5v5: error when trying to install together

[Riley Baird]

On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:37:44 +0200
Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:11:14 +1000 Riley Baird
> <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:54:00 -0400
> > Eric Dorland <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > * Riley Baird (bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch) wrote:
> > > > This is listed in the FTP master's cruft report, so if I'm correct, it
> > > > shouldn't be necessary to request a removal from unstable.
> > > 
> > > Yeah and you have the right conflicts/replaces. I'm surprised it's
> > > complaining about this.
> > 
> > No, at the moment, it is possible to simultaneously install these
> > conflicting packages because someone made a NMU just before or after you
> > uploaded my package, but they didn't add the hyphen between "libassa"
> > and "3", so now we have libassa3.5-5v5 and libassa-3.5-5v5.
> What is the status on adding these Conflicts/Replaces?  This bug will
> soon be the only thing blocking libassa's transition to testing.

We don't need to add any more Conflicts/Replaces.

libassa3.5-5v5 and libassa-3.5-5v5 both only exist in unstable at the
moment. They come from different versions of the same source package.
Only libassa-3.5-5v5 will make it into testing. For a person running
testing, it will be impossible to have the problem which Ralf described.


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Bug#797076: libassa-3.5-5-dev: gratuitous -dev package name change

[Riley Baird]

 libassa3.5-5-dev was renamed to libassa-3.5-5-dev, which makes reverse
 deps unbuildable.  Please revert that change, there's no reason to
 rename the -dev package.

The only reverse dep is granule, which I've prepared a new version of.
I'm waiting for it to be uploaded.


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Bug#797076: libassa-3.5-5-dev: gratuitous -dev package name change

[Riley Baird]

Okay, point taken. But now that it is renamed, should I really rename
it again?

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:25:34 +0200
Julien Cristau jul...@cristau.org wrote:

 That still doesn't make sense. You shouldn't rename the dev package, but if 
 you do it shouldn't include a version...
 
 On August 27, 2015 11:11:52 PM CEST, Riley Baird 
 bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch wrote:
  libassa3.5-5-dev was renamed to libassa-3.5-5-dev, which makes
 reverse
  deps unbuildable.  Please revert that change, there's no reason to
  rename the -dev package.
 
 The only reverse dep is granule, which I've prepared a new version of.
 I'm waiting for it to be uploaded.
 
 -- 
 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


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Bug#796863: libassa3.5-5v5 and libassa-3.5-5v5: error when trying to install together

[Riley Baird]

This is listed in the FTP master's cruft report, so if I'm correct, it
shouldn't be necessary to request a removal from unstable.


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Bug#796863: libassa3.5-5v5 and libassa-3.5-5v5: error when trying to install together

[Riley Baird]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:54:00 -0400
Eric Dorland e...@debian.org wrote:

 * Riley Baird (bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch) wrote:
  This is listed in the FTP master's cruft report, so if I'm correct, it
  shouldn't be necessary to request a removal from unstable.
 
 Yeah and you have the right conflicts/replaces. I'm surprised it's
 complaining about this.

No, at the moment, it is possible to simultaneously install these
conflicting packages because someone made a NMU just before or after you
uploaded my package, but they didn't add the hyphen between libassa
and 3, so now we have libassa3.5-5v5 and libassa-3.5-5v5.


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Bug#779552: pyelliptic: Four functions in arithmetic.py do not work correctly because of incorrect indentation

[Riley Baird]

Source: pyelliptic
Version: 1.5.5
Severity: serious
Justification: completely broken

Due to an error in indentation when I submitted the arithmetic.py file
upstream, many functions within that file simply do not work when called. This
bug has been fixed upstream, but it is necessary to file this bug report such
that the fix can make it into jessie.

More information can be found here:
https://github.com/yann2192/pyelliptic/issues/30



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Bug#388141: Relicensing of debian-www pages

[Riley Baird]

Hi -www!

From #388141, it seems that Debian is in the process of relicensing the
www pages. So far, after contacting all of the contributors, most of
them have agreed to relicense but there are still some that have not
responded and it is unlikely that they will. Because of this, Stefano
Zacchiroli and Bradley M. Kuhn have devised a relicensing plan.[1]

It seems that the next step in this plan is to make a list of website
lines that are: 1/ still active, and 2/ for which we do *not* have
received permission to relicence.

Does this list already exist? If not, would anyone be interested in
making it?

Yours sincerely,

Riley Baird


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=388141#356


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Bug#754565: moodle removal

[Riley Baird]

On 27/01/15 21:27, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
 On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:21:22AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
 Hi,

 I don't think removal of moodle right now is a sane thing.  I'll upload
 a final 2.7.2 package to unstable within about 5 weeks.

 There has been a private discussion between me, Thijs Kinkhorst and Moritz
 Mühlenhoff about this.
 
 FWIW, my preliminary work is available from http://mdcc.cx/tmp/moodle/ .

That's great! I'm glad to hear that it's still being worked on. Sorry
for the RM request - I tried to call for maintainers before filing it a
week ago and I didn't find a single person that wanted to put in the
work to keep it.


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Bug#388141: Relicensing of Debian www pages

[Riley Baird]

On 24/01/15 00:44, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
 Riley Baird wrote at 17:16 (EST) on Thursday:
 A couple of years ago, you offered to assist Debian in the relicensing
 of its www pages. Has there been any progress on this?
 
 I remain willing to help, but I cannot take the lead on this issue.  If
 there's something specific that Debian needs help with to accomplish
 this task, I remain willing to help.

Thanks! Can you give me an idea of what Debian would need to do next to
accomplish this?


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Bug#754565: [moodle-packaging] Bug#754565: Bug#754565: Non free icc profile

[Riley Baird]

On 22/01/15 18:47, Dan Poltawski wrote:
 Hi Riley,
 
 On 22 January 2015 at 06:34, Riley Baird
 bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch wrote:
 P.S. I tried writing a message on the moodle forums to give them a heads
 up on the situation, but the spam filter stopped me. It told me to send
 my post to he...@moodle.org, so hopefully it will still get through.
 
 'Upstream' here. Apologies that you got hit by a spam filter (I'm
 afraid we were getting hit quite aggressively by first time link
 spammers which is probably the cause of your filtering). Thank you
 very much for trying to get in touch with us.

That's OK - Helen just helped me work around the filter. I've posted a
short thread here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278847

 So much as it saddens me - I think this is the right course of action.
 There is little evidence to suggest that the package is widely used
 which makes it even less motivating for contributors for the
 significant amount of work it takes to keep up with our wide ranging
 upstream security fixes.

Thanks for your support of this. Popcon shows only 78 installations.


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Bug#388141: Relicensing of Debian www pages

[Riley Baird]

Hi Bradley,

A couple of years ago, you offered to assist Debian in the relicensing
of its www pages. Has there been any progress on this?

Yours thankfully,

Riley Baird


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Bug#754565: [moodle-packaging] Bug#754565: Non free icc profile

[Riley Baird]

On 22/01/15 07:56, Tomasz Muras wrote:
 Package: moodle
 Followup-For: Bug #754565
 
 It's not a big problem to remove whole tcpdf library from Moodle src - it
 is not used by Moodle itself. However, there are other issues with the
 package - including security fixes and I'm afraid there is too much work 
 too little interest in maintaining it, so RM may really be the best way to
 go.

Wow! I just saw the list of unfixed security issues, and there are a LOT.

To be fair to anyone else that is interested in saving moodle, I'll
still wait the week that I said I was going to before filing a RM bug.

P.S. I tried writing a message on the moodle forums to give them a heads
up on the situation, but the spam filter stopped me. It told me to send
my post to he...@moodle.org, so hopefully it will still get through.


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Bug#754565: Non free icc profile

[Riley Baird]

Package: moodle
Followup-For: Bug #754565

Hi,

This bug has been open for a while, with no response. Files that forbid
modification are not DFSG-free, so you will need to remove
lib/tcpdf/include/sRGB.icc from the moodle package.

However, note that the file that you want is in the non-free package isc-
profiles under the name sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_black_scaled.icc, so you may want
to add Suggests: isc-profiles to d/control.

Please write back within one week, or I will file an RM bug. (You don't have to
have it fixed by then, I just need to know that someone is working on it. :-) )

Yours thankfully,

Riley Baird



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Bug#774931: Trying to find the licenses for the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection

[Riley Baird]

On 19/01/15 03:51, Axel Beckert wrote:
 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
 On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:06:01PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
 asr-manpages unfortunately got removed from testing manually without
 explicit reason instead of just waiting for the autoremoval period.
 That happened despite there are obvious efforts to fix this issue --
 which definitely lowered my motiviation to do an NMU for this issue
 once the upstream authors have answered. :-(

 The maintainer indicated in #774932 that it would be best to remove it.
 
 Gah, this anonymous submitter is annoying. His claim that this is
 practically impossible is yet to be proved as I'm trying to prove the
 opposite.

I am not anonymous. My name is Riley Baird. I am the maintainer of
pyelliptic. Is there any more information you would like to know about me?

 He rather should be constructive instead of kicking people's work in
 the ass. I'm quite pissed that anyone seems to ignore that I'm trying
 to fix this issue to avoid the same fate as with funny-manpages (where
 the copyright questions are indeed difficult to fix as the authors
 first have to be figured out).

You might not have seen this, but I have tried contacting many of the
authors of the funny-manpages, and not a single one responded - except
RMS, who refused to relicense his manpages. I even tried making a phone
call to someone after looking up their name in the white pages.

The reason that I filed the RM request was that the RC bug on
funny-manpages was left open for several hundred days, with no action.
Since it seemed that nobody cared about this issue with funny-manpages,
I saw no reason to assume that anyone would care about it with asr-manpages.

Now that you are making an effort to fix it, that's great. I *want*
asr-manpages to be in Debian. I just don't think that you are likely to
get permission from all, or even most, of the authors, and especially
not in time for the jessie release.


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Bug#774931: Trying to find the licenses for the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection

[Riley Baird]

 Gah, this anonymous submitter is annoying. His claim that this is
 practically impossible is yet to be proved as I'm trying to prove the
 opposite.

 I am not anonymous.
 
 Just a first name and an anonymous remailer is more or less anonymous
 for me.

It isn't an anonymous remailer; this is my actual email address - you
can send Bitmessages to it as well. :-)

Thanks for pointing out about me only giving my first name - I didn't
realise this. I'll need to change my reportbug configuration.

 RMS declaring that something doesn't need to be free is weird.

Yeah, he seems to be upset with Debian, because he says that we
distribute non-free software.

 I even tried making a phone call to someone after looking up their
 name in the white pages.
 
 Thanks! I actually would only try that in my own country...

Same. After looking at a wayback machine copy of Nikolai Kingsley's
homepage, I discovered he lived in Victoria, just like me.
Unfortunately, I got an answering machine message. :)

 The reason that I filed the RM request was that the RC bug on
 funny-manpages was left open for several hundred days, with no
 action.
 
 Despite they are different authors and nobody had tried to contact
 them before? Sorry, from my PoV this is clearly not the same.

You're probably right, but at the time I made the decision because the
maintainer of asr-manpages was the same as the maintainer of funny-manpages.

fwiw, I saw that John Guthrie's email bounced. Have you considered
contacting the math department of the University of Pennsylvania to see
if they know where he is now?

 Since it seemed that nobody cared about this issue with
 funny-manpages, I saw no reason to assume that anyone would care
 about it with asr-manpages.
 
 I didn't try it with funny-manpages as there were more or less no
 authors listed in there. But in asr-manpages, most authors were listed
 and it was clear that the original postings can be found in the usenet
 group alt.sysadmin.recovery. For me that's a huge difference and the
 reason why I started the effort for asr-manpages, but not for
 funny-manpages.

Okay, now I see why you'd want to help fix asr-manpages but not
funny-manpages. Having the list of authors' names and email addresses is
a big advantage over not having them.

 Now that you are making an effort to fix it, that's great. I *want*
 asr-manpages to be in Debian. I just don't think that you are likely to
 get permission from all, or even most, of the authors, and especially
 not in time for the jessie release.
 
 Not anymore after the package has been removed earlier than needed,
 no. IMHO, there was a small chance before the removal. *sigh*

*sigh*. Hopefully in Debian 9.

 (I can see that result of the effort around funny-manpages can be
 demotivating and frustrating. But someone taking away the chance to
 get something fixed in time is demotivating and frustrating, too. So
 please be less impatient when you file an RM bug next time.)

Okay, I will. Just confirming, in future would it be okay to file an RM
bug against a package with an RC bug that hasn't seen activity in a
year, provided I express my intentions in the report and give the
maintainer a week to respond?


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Bug#767583: ar9300_devid.h license restricts modification

[Riley Baird]

Hi!

The license of two files in the ath_hal driver appears to restrict
modification. The two files are:
/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9003/ar9300_devid.h
/sys/contrib/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9300/ar9300_devid.h

The license of these files is:
  * Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Sam Leffler, Errno Consulting, Atheros
  * Communications, Inc.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
  * provided that the following conditions are met:
  * 1. The materials contained herein are unmodified and are used
  *unmodified.
  * 2. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
  *notice, this list of conditions and the following NO
  *''WARRANTY'' disclaimer below (''Disclaimer''), without
  *modification.
  * 3. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce at minimum a
  *disclaimer similar to the Disclaimer below and any redistribution
  *must be conditioned upon including a substantially similar
  *Disclaimer requirement for further binary redistribution.
  * 4. Neither the names of the above-listed copyright holders nor the
  *names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote
  *product derived from this software without specific prior written
  *permission.
  *
  * NO WARRANTY
  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
  * ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
  * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NONINFRINGEMENT,
  * MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
  * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
  * FOR SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
  * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
  * USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
  * ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
  * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
  * OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
  * SUCH DAMAGES.
  *
  * $FreeBSD$

There is a discussion about this going on at Debian:
https://bugs.debian.org/767583

Thanks for reading,

Riley Baird


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Bug#767583: kfreebsd-10: ar9300_devid.h license restricts modification

[Riley Baird]

Hi,

 Do we think this is copyrightable material (adding FTP Master for 
 input)? What does linux do (doesn't seem obvious from the link you 
 quoted but codesearch seems to indicate debian linunx doesn't have
 it)? Has FreeBSD upstream been contacted?

Honestly, I doubt that it is copyrightable, but I think that I'll
leave that judgement up to the FTP Masters.

Linux upstream provides all firmware in a separate tree due to GPL
requirements. Strangely enough, it seems that they are still
distributing the closed-source firmware instead of
open-ath9k-htc-firmware (which is where the license problem was
discovered).

I hadn't contacted FreeBSD upstream about this before, but I just have
now. If you're subscribed to this bug, you should have received a copy
of the message.

Riley


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Bug#737395: Debian funny-manpages Copyright

[Riley Baird]

Hi Dave!

I'm from Debian, and we currently ship some manpages which you
wrote/improved many years ago (baby.1, echo.1 and flame.1).

The problem is, someone has complained that we can't distribute them
since they aren't under a DFSG-free copyright license.

So, would you please be able to release them under a free license?

If you need any help, just ask.

Yours thankfully,

Riley Baird

P.S. If you have time, can you please take a look at this bug report [1]
and tell us:
1. Do you know the contact details of any of the other authors?
2. Have you written any of the manpages without author information?
3. Have you written any other funny manpages we don't know about?

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737395


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Bug#737395: xkill.1 Copyright

[Riley Baird]

Hi Claudio Calvelli,

There have been some concerns on Debian that the 'xkill.1' manpage which
you have written was not released under a DFSG-compatible license.
Would you please be able to release it under a free license so that we
don't have to remove it?

If you need any help, just ask.

Yours thankfully,

Riley Baird


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Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright

[Riley Baird]

On 15/08/14 11:03, Richard Stallman wrote:
 [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
 [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
 [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
 
 Okay, but as it stands, there is not even the right to distribute.
 
 Indeed, they ought to have a sharable license.
 
 In fact, the next Emacs release won't have these files any more.

Okay, thanks. I'll contact the maintainer of the package. They should be
removed from Debian soon.


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Bug#737395: Unix funny-manpages copyright

[Riley Baird]

Hi Ken Maupin!

Do you remember how you wrote a manpage condom.1 a while ago? I'm from
Debian and some people have been complaining about the lack of a
DFSG-compatible license on it. So we can continue to distribute it,
would you mind releasing it under a DFSG-compatible license? If you have
any questions, then just let me know!

Thanks for your time,

Riley Baird


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Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright

[Riley Baird]

On 14/08/14 08:48, Richard Stallman wrote:
 [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
 [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
 [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
 
 The funny man pages are not works for practical use.
 They are jokes.
 So they don't need to be free.

They need to be free to be included in Debian, however. (And if Debian
has to remove them, then countless other derivative distros will also
lose them.)


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Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright

[Riley Baird]

 I believe Debian rules provide for an exception for some sorts of
 files that serve no functional purpose.  I don't remember the details,
 but I suggest you take a look.

I'm not sure, but afaik, they don't (that's why there was the whole GFDL
issue a while ago).

 Anyway, it isn't my problem, it's Debian's problem.  It's GNU Project
 policy to follow our own license policy, rather than the policy of
 some other project, especially a project that distributes nonfree
 software.

Okay, but as it stands, there is not even the right to distribute. If I
buy a copy of emacs and then give a copy to my friend, you could sue me
over the manpages, saying that I should have removed them before making
the copy.

Also, you've previously stated that you think that copyright should be
limited to 10 years. You wrote the manpages more than 10 years ago, so
by your standard, they should be free now.


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Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright

[Riley Baird]

Hi RMS!

There have been some concerns on Debian that the funny manpages which
you have written have not been released under a DFSG-compatible license.
Would you please be able to release them under a free license so that we
don't have to remove them?

So far, we have and need permission for sex.6fun and celibacy.1fun.
(Tell us if you have any more :D)

Yours thankfully,

Riley Baird


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Bug#737395: Funny manpages Copyright

[Riley Baird]

Hi!

I noticed that, in the early 1990s, Sunburne Computer, Inc. made some
funny manpages - one for party, and another set documenting the
Penix operating system. :)

Your email address was given with one set of documentation, so I'm
guessing that you wrote them.

If you did, and you own copyright on them, can you please agree to put
them into the public domain? Someone has filed a bug with Debian saying
that we don't have permission to use the pages under the DFSG.

If this wasn't you, can you give me a hint as to who might be able to
give permission?

-

To put it into the public domain, all you have to do is copy the
following statement and send it back:

I, the copyright holder of the party.1fun manpage and the Penix
manpages, release these works into the public domain. This applies
worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
I grant anyone the right to use these works for any purpose, without any
conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

-

Thanks for doing this,

Riley Baird


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Bug#737395: Trying to get permission

[Riley Baird]

This certainly is a problem. Over the next week or two, I'll write to
the emails that you've given to see if we can get permission for those,
and to see if those authors know where to find some of the unknown ones.

Also, baby.1fun appears to have come from David W. Sanderson
(tenc...@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov). It is based on a manpage by Joe Beck
(b...@cs.ualberta.ca)

party.1fun was made by Sunburne Computer, Inc.

echo.1fun was put into [nt]roff source by David W. Sanderson, and was
written by Richard Stallman.

flame.1fun was written by Ed Felton (fel...@sci34hub.sci.com) and,
apparently, David W. Sanderson also had something to do with it.

From https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/05/msg01056.html and
condom.1fun, it appears that Richard Stallman also wrote sex.6fun and
celibacy.1fun; they were distributed with some versions of emacs.


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Bug#750912: u-boot: Non-DFSG files included within source package

[Riley Baird]

 After a brief glance, I don't *think* any of the targets we ship use
 these files. They do appear to contain data that might be contstrued 
as sourceless firmware...

Ah, that's good. If this is the case, then it should be relatively easy
to rebuild the package with these files removed.


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