Package: bsdiff Severity: normal Tags: patch The author of the package has claimed that the README for version 4.2-1 violates his copyright since it is taken from http://www.daemonology.net/bsdif/.
See the copyright holder's mail at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00119.html Here is a patch README; I hereby assign copyright in it to the Software in Public Interest that debian continues to have a README for the application. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
This package provides two utilities - bsdiff and bspatch - which create and patch binary files. The package depends on bzip2; and creates files which are much smaller. More details are available in the man pages. The author has written version 6 of this program as a part of his doctoral thesis, but the Oxford University claims copyright over that version. Ports for *BSDs, Darwin, and Microsoft's operating system are available. A python extension module too is available at http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining/cx_bsdiff/index.html The home page for the bsdiff is http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
