Hi Florian,
first of all, many thanks to Noritada-san and Kinoshita-san for
bugreport and analysis.
Just for the record, currently I'm drafting a letter to upstream. I'm
going to ask for a retroactive license change/upgrade to CC by-sa 3.0,
so that this problem can hopefully be resolved
Hi there,
first of all, many thanks to Noritada-san and Kinoshita-san for
bugreport and analysis.
Just for the record, currently I'm drafting a letter to upstream. I'm
going to ask for a retroactive license change/upgrade to CC by-sa 3.0,
so that this problem can hopefully be resolved for Etch
Hi,
From: Tatsuya Kinoshita
Subject: Re: Bug#445020: edict kanjidic: License discrepancy between the
Debian package and upstream, upstream's license being non-free
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:20:15 +0900 (JST)
On October 3, 2007 at 3:16AM +0900,
nori1 (at dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp) wrote
On October 3, 2007 at 3:16AM +0900,
nori1 (at dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp) wrote:
Package: edict
Version: 2006.10.09-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
[...]
Current license for edict and kanjidic seems to be CC by-sa 2.5, which
is different from a custom license described in
On October 3, 2007 at 3:16AM +0900,
nori1 (at dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp) wrote:
* The online license page only says that the license for distribution
is CC by-sa and does not specify its version. However, the license
deed and full license code linked from that page is ones of CC by-sa
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tags 445020 confirmed
Bug#445020: edict kanjidic: License discrepancy between the Debian package
and upstream, upstream's license being non-free
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clone 445020 -1
Bug#445020: edict kanjidic: License
tags 445020 confirmed
clone 445020 -1
reassign -1 kanjidic
thanks
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:16:44AM +0900, Kobayashi Noritada wrote:
From these facts, I guess that the upstream changed the license from
the custom one to CC by-sa 2.5 without notice. It is obvious from
web.archive.org[2] that
Package: edict
Version: 2006.10.09-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Hi,
Current license for edict and kanjidic seems to be CC by-sa 2.5, which
is different from a custom license described in debian/copyright and
is not DFSG-free. IMHO the best solution for this situation is
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