On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:08:09 +0000 Jonathan McCrohan wrote: [...] > On 24/11/12 22:19, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > > while reviewing the debian/copyright file of the (finally back in main!) > > figlet package, I noticed two issues. > > > > > > The first is an inaccurate copying of a license text: [...] > > This is not the actual text of the WTFPL v2, which is instead > > reported at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING > > > > Please fix the debian/copyright file. > > Thanks for pointing this out.
You're welcome. > This issue is not an RC issue though, so > I'm going to downgrade it, and clone it as a separate issue to keep > track of it. I am not too convinced that it is not RC, since it violates a "must" directive of the Debian Policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgcopyright Anyway, thanks a lot for fixing it! > > > The second issue is the most important one [...] > > This license fails to meet the DFSG (#3 and #6) and is > > GPL-incompatible, as discussed in the following old debian-legal > > thread: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00534.html > > > > Please read that debian-legal thread, as it includes potentially > > useful information on how some files copyrighted by Unicode Inc. > > may perhaps get re-licensed under DFSG-free terms. > > > > Please try to have those files re-licensed in a DFSG-free manner, > > or, failing that, please drop them by re-packing the source > > orig.tar.gz archive. > > The files in question have been sourced from here [1], and as such, have > already been relicensed under the Unicode Inc. Licence Agreement [2]. This is great news, indeed. > I'm going to also downgrade this, and I'll update the copyright file > with this licence in the next upload. Again, I suspect that the bug should still be considered of severity "serious", but anyway, thanks for fixing it! > > Thanks for your interest in FIGlet! Thanks to you for maintaining it! Bye. > > Jon > > [1] http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ > [2] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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