* Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> [151218 23:17]: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:15:50 +0100 Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > [...] > > I don't really see how any of the quoted text makes generator.c > > non-free; you certainly don't provide additional explanation. > > The quoted text in the original report seems to be the entire license > grant for ruby-2.2.3/ext/json/generator/generator.c
From the look of the placement of the grant, this certainly can't be
the entire grant for the given file.
> If this is the case, then, at the very least, it lacks any permission
> to modify the file (thus failing DFSG#3).
> Moreover, the license grant seems to attempt to restrict use to
> "products supporting the Unicode Standard" (thus possibly failing
> DFSG#6).
This is not how I read the grant. I understand "to make copies of
this file in any form for internal or external distribution as long
as this notice remains attached" to allow us to make copies in
whatever form, possibly incomplete or with supplemental information.
(It does not say anything about not modifying the contents.)
I'd agree that the grant is not very clear.
> I hope this clarifies.
>
> I would say that the severity of this bug should be brought back
> to "serious".
AFAICT Debian ships various copies of the same code ("convertutf.c")
in main, including in libantlr3c, open-vm-tools, mysql-workbench,
ghostscript and possibly many others.
Whomever thinks that there's an actual license problem can take the
issue to ftpmaster and see what they think.
Best,
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