Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
This request is based on #805370.
mpage is out of testing since 2016-01-01. Its old license (up to 2.5.6 version)
said:
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The main license used by mpage says:
* Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
* copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided
* that this copyright notice is preserved, and that the
* distributor grants the recipient permission for further
* redistribution as permitted by this noti
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The current version (2.5.7) is GPL-2+. However, an essential file
(Encodings/encoding.h) is keeping the same old license:
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encoding.h.PC850: * Copyright (c) 1994-2004 Marcel J.E. Mol, The Netherlands
encoding.h.PC850: * Copyright (c) 1988 Mark P. Hahn, Herndon, Virginia
encoding.h.PC850- *
encoding.h.PC850- * Permission is granted to anyone to make or
distribute verbatim
encoding.h.PC850- * copies of this document as received, in any
medium, provided
encoding.h.PC850: * that this copyright notice is preserved, and that the
encoding.h.PC850- * distributor grants the recipient permission for
further
encoding.h.PC850- * redistribution as permitted by this notice.
encoding.h.PC850- *
encoding.h.PC850- * %%%% IBM international codepage 850 encoding for
mpage filter
encoding.h.PC850- * %
encoding.h.PC850- * % Written by Tilmann Boess
<tilm...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, 1996/04/06
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Some packages depends of the mpage:
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$ apt-cache showpkg mpage
Package: mpage
Versions:
2.5.6+dfsg-1
(/var/lib/apt/lists/debian:3142_ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
[...]
Reverse Depends:
foomatic-filters,mpage
printfilters-ppd,mpage
magicfilter,mpage
gjots2,mpage
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>From the quoted packages:
foomatic-filters: Recommends paps | cups | enscript | a2ps | mpage
printfilters-ppd: Depends: transfig, mpage, [...] (currently not in testing or
stable)
magicfilter: Recommends: enscript | a2ps | mpage
gjots2: Recommends: gv, mpage, python-gtksourceview2
I think this package is no longer useful and can be removed.
Regards,
Eriberto
