Package: mesa
Version: 7.0.3
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Justification: Policy 2.1
Subject: mesa: glut files have non-DFSG-free license
Package: mesa
Version: 7.0.3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1
Some files in mesa have the following license:
/* This program is freely distributable without
Julien Cristau schreef:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 19:25:31 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
A similar issue was reported (and resolved) for glutg3-dev, see Debian bug
report #131997.
It's not a similar issue, it's the exact same one. So why do you open
this exactly?
Because the code in Mesa
Julien Cristau schreef:
Because the code in Mesa seems to be based on that of glut, but has
been modified since it was included.
I can't see any substantial modification in src/glut/glx since the
initial import.
I mostly looked at include/GL/glut.h, because that file was mentioned in
the
Kilgard's Yes, that's fine reply for bug #131997 only applies to that
package, not to all of his code with that same license notice. Both
pointblast.c and spriteblast.c are not in that package, so they still
fall under the original (unclarified) non-DFSG-free license. See the
FSF's statement I
AMS have updated the license. Is it possible to still get this into Squeeze?
Originele bericht
Onderwerp: [Gnewsense-dev] Restatement of AMS-LaTeX license
Datum: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:34:08 -0400
Van: David M. Jones d...@ams.org
Dear Benedikt, et al,
Enclosed is a copy of a new
Benedikt Ahrens schreef:
hello,
the AMS has decided to publish amslatex under LPPL. see david jones'
message on the bottom.
this concerns future releases only. is this ok for gns? can we keep the
current package even if it isn't covered legally by this license?
Thanks for following up on
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We'd also like to see this change for gNewSense. Did you hear back from
upstream? I see that there's a poll on their website now for new
features. Substituting poweriso currently has 0% votes. :(
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The file zips/omcv1.4a.tgz/OMCv1.4a/src/copyright says
The SOFTWARE is provided for non-commercial use only. Any use or
reproduction of any part of
Package: ax25-apps
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The file listen/ripdump.c has the following license notice:
* Changes Copyright (c) 1993 Jeff White - N0POY, All Rights Reserved.
* Permission granted for
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Version: 0.23-8
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The file src/ripdump.c has the following license notice:
* Changes Copyright (c) 1993 Jeff White - N0POY, All Rights Reserved.
* Permission granted
Source: ace
Version: 5.7.7-4
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In ACE+TAO+CIAO-src-5.7.7.tar.bz2 there is document ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO/
connectors/dds4ccm/docs/ptc_09-10-26 DDS4CCM v1-0 WCB.pdf,
Note that the same file exists also in ax25spyd. See bug report #630894.
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Note that the same file exists also in ax25-apps. See bug report #630893.
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Package: abuse-frabs
Version: 2.11-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1.1, 2.1.6
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The license notice in addon/claudio/claudio.lsp does not allow distribution or
commercial use. It probably applies to all files in
Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.12-6
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The file lib-src/libnyquist/nyquist/xlisp/xlbfun.c contains the following
license notice:
/* Copyright (c) 1985, by David Michael Betz
All
Package: erc
Version: 5.3-1
Severity: normal
I connect to freenode.net using M-x erc-tls. I accept irc.freenode.net
for the IRC server, change the port to 6697, enter my user name and leave
the password blank (I've configured automatic identification to NickServ).
It connects fine and just works.
I edited the two .el files as suggested in this very similar upstream
bug report [1], but it doesn't work for me.
[1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4958
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I found that the patch from GNU bug report 4958 does work. I didn't
realize that the patched files needed to be byte-compiled.
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Package: nyquist
Version: 2.29-6
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The file xlisp/xlbfun.c contains the following license notice:
/* Copyright (c) 1985, by David Michael Betz
All Rights Reserved
Nearly the same file is also used in the nyquist package, see bug #631646.
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Package: liferea
Version: 1.6.4-1
Severity: normal
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Menu Tools - Preferences - Browser - Browser lists several browsers that can
be set to use as external Web browser. The list contains (among others)
Konqueror and Opera, neither of which I have
Steve M. Robbins wrote:
When was the code relicensed?
Not sure.
Then how can we determine if any of the xlisp dependent packages in any
of the Debian versions are still affected?
It would also be good to make this information available to other
distributions who might be distributing
Sebastian Muszynski has sent an e-mail to the copyright holder to ask
about relicensing the code. No response so far, afaik. See bug report
#630894.
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Will the file be updated with that information to avoid confusion with
its use in other packages and distributions?
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Package: arc
Version: 5.21o-2
Severity: important
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The debian/copyright file says that arc fall under the GPL. However, several
files in the package indicate that the software is in fact non-free.
a) The files arc.c and marc.c have
Package: alpine
Version: 2.00+dfsg-6
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Justification: Policy 2.1.3
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The file pico/msmem.c contains the following comment:
===
* This code originally written by Stephen Chung and posted to a
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The source package contains the files vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe.
The following is an excerpt from eula.rtf contained in those CAB
Steve M. Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
So we know that the relicensing happend prior to its use by nyquist.
(I don't know the specific date, however, which is why I said not
sure, above).
Does that help?
I had a closer look at http
I'm happy those files are deleted upstream (at least in the stable
branch). But I think at least these terms make the .exe files
undistributable:
* publish the software for others to copy;
* transfer the software or this agreement to any third party; or
AFAIK, that does require that
I certainly want to help getting this solved, but I don't know what all
the appropriate actions are. I also don't know what's involved in the
intermediate approach you suggest, but from your explanation I gather
that's easier. I'm guessing the next stable point release is not far
off, so the
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The license notice in afm/MustRead.html says the following:
This file and the 35 PostScript(R) AFM files it
accompanies may be used, copied, and distributed for any purpose and
Will the file be updated with that information to avoid confusion with
its use in other packages and distributions?
When was the code relicensed?
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Package: icedtea6-plugin
Version: 6b18-1.8.7-2~squeeze1
Severity: normal
When I visit http://www.iok.be/htmlsite/ABkalender-gidsmain.html with Epiphany
I get the following error (Epiphany started from a terminal):
java version 1.6.0_18
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.7)
The Classpath project seems to have a bug report about this [1]. It
links to a possible solution in OpenJDK7.
[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=363
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Version: 2.7.7-16
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In directory examples/java/unicode.IDENTs there are 2 files,
ShowString.java and StreamConverter.java that have this license
statement:
Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze3
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File main/sha1.c has this license notice:
* This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
*
Package: avogadro
Version: 1.0.1-3+b1
Severity: serious
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The directory 'testfiles' in the source package contans some files
that appear to have a non-free license.
methane.g03 has this
Package: as31
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The file examples/paulmon1.asm has the following notice:
Please distribute freely -- may not be sold, period.
Restricting commercial distribution violates
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.2.0-2squeeze1
Severity: normal
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When I use reprepro to create a local repository for or including Squeeze's
security updates, I get warnings about a strange filekey. E.g. when I
`reprepro -b . update':
Warning:
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
Looks like you found a ugly glitch in reprepro's pool handling.
Looking at the names of files in pool/ it does not expect the slash
coming from the component in there.
That's what I figured when I skimmed pool.c.
The consequences are this ugly warning and reprepro
Klaus Reimer wrote:
Together we (Howard and I) created the
arc project on Sourceforge, Howard uploaded the original sources of the
Unix version of arc and we added a COPYING file (GPL license) and a
LICENSE file which describes the license change. The comments in the
original source files were
It looks like this was fixed for Wheezy, but not for Squeeze. Will the
stable release also get a fix?
Thanks,
Sam Geeraerts
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Sebastian Muszynski wrote:
I will remove the ripdump-Implementation from ax25spyd ASAP.
It is possible to cancel the removal request?
Hi Sebastian,
Do you plan to re-introduce this package with the non-free code removed?
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Package: sharand
Version: 0.0.20040607-1
Severity: serious
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File main/sha1.c has this license notice:
This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
others, and derivative works
Package: htp
Version: 1.16-4
Severity: normal
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The license information in debian/copyright says that this package is released
under the Artistic License. However, src/LICENSE.txt says that sprintf.*
(probably should be snprintf.*) is licensed
I came across this bug while checking license issues for Debian
derivative gNewSense. It looks like this is the only unresolved one left
in the list of serious issues in debian/copyright.
What's the current status? Can we assume that everything in extsizes
falls in the public domain?
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Version: 2.51-1
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Dear Maintainer,
The debian/copyright file says that this program is licensed under the
Artistic License. But the README file says that it's licensed under the same
terms as Perl itself. Perl's
Package: xtv
Version: 1.1-13
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Justification: Policy 4.5
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Dear Maintainer,
The debian/copyright file says that xtv falls under the Artistic License.
However, xtv.lsm says Copying-policy: GPL. Please fix the copyright file or
]? Both packages that use your code
are under the GPL license, so the 3-clause license is needed.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
Regards,
Sam Geeraerts
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Dear Maintainer,
The debian/copyright file says that the files in examples/NeHe/ are licensed
under a free license, but it doesn't specify which
Package: latex2html
Version: 2008-debian1
Severity: normal
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Dear Maintainer,
The debian/copyright file says that files under L2hos/ are licensed under
the Artistic License. But File::Spec, from which those files are derived,
is under the same
Ben Hutchings wrote:
Now I understand that the samples are the stdout/stderr logs from other
programs and not any conventional kind of file format. Given that, it
seems perfectly clear that these texts should be understood to refer to
those programs and not these files. I agree that the
I think we have a misunderstanding. If I understand correctly then
you're talking about finding and listing all installed browsers. I
agree that that is difficult and distro-specific.
My suggestion is to keep the hard coded browsers array (perhaps
slightly modified) that's already in
Package: lsh-server
Version: 2.0.4-dfsg-7
Severity: normal
The default umask on a Squeeze system is 0022. However, when I
connect via ssh to lsh-server on my Squeeze system the umask
in the session is . It would make more sense to also have
0022 there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release:
Niels Möller wrote:
And now enter lshd, which is *not* PAMified.
The comments in doc/NOTES indicate that's it's not going to happen in
the future either. Although the code does seem to have some PAM support
in the form of lsh-pam-checkpw. But that probably wouldn't set the umask
if it were
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Dear Maintainer,
According to bubbob/levels/README.txt (and the file program) the *.bin files
in bubbob/levels are MacBinary files. There appears to be no source for these
Package: python-pymssql
Version: 1.0.2+dfsg-1+b3
Tags: patch
It'd be nice if the patch would be applied to the stable release.
Package: python-jpype
Version: 0.5.4.2-3+b1
The newest version of Jpype in Debian is currently 0.5.4.2, which is
from 2011. The latest upstream version is 0.6.2, which is from 2017.
Some Python packages (e.g. JayDeBeApi) require a newer version of Jpype
than the one in Debian. There's also Python
This is due to improper use of setuptools_scm in docs/conf.py. This is
fixed [1] in version 0.16.8, along with other build errors. Please
consider packaging the new version.
[1]
https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/commit/b1214cd693d7a6c6693da3d070e8b9965a84a88e
Package: libarchive-zip-perl
Version: 1.68-1
Severity: normal
Dear maintainer,
The crc32 utility computes a checksum of the given files, e.g.:
$ filename=blah ; filepath=/tmp/"${filename}" ; echo foo > "${filepath}" ;
crc32 "${filepath}"
7e3265a8
However, when part of the filename looks like
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