Bug#805370: mpage licensing

2017-08-02 Thread Eriberto Mota 
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:13:47 +0200 Paul Gevers  wrote:
> Ping...
>
> As a QA maintained package which is not going into the upcoming release
> with a license issue open for 1.5 years, shouldn't this package be
> removed from Debian?
>
> Paul
>


Hi Paul,

The upstream released a new version under GPL-2+. However, the file
Encodings/encoding.h is keeping tha 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
, 1996/04/06
-

I agree with you: this package should be removed from Debian.

Regards,

Eriberto

Bug#805370: mpage licensing

2017-04-17 Thread Paul Gevers 
Ping...

As a QA maintained package which is not going into the upcoming release
with a license issue open for 1.5 years, shouldn't this package be
removed from Debian?

Paul



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Bug#805370: mpage licensing

2016-09-18 Thread Eriberto Mota 
Hi,

I am a Debian community member.

In my last revision over the mpage packaged in Debian[1], I detected
that the licensing used[2] does not say explicitely about rights to
modify the source code. It can break the liberty to make changes in
source code. This issue was debated here[3] and generated this bug[4]
in Debian.

Considering that mpage is a very importante package for Debian and
other distributions, can you think about relicense your source code?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards,

Eriberto

[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mpage.html
[2] 
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/m/mpage/unstable_copyright
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/10/msg00046.html
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805370