Source: scowl
Version: 2019.10.06-1
During licensing checks of the "scowl" sources, we identified two
problematic files. r/pos/README-orig as well as r/mwords/README. Both say:
[...]
This documentation, software and/or database was developed
and copyrighted by Grady Ward and is licensed, not sold, to
you on a non-exclusive, non-transferable basis. The documentation,
software and/or database and derivative works of this database
may not be copied in whole or part except for archival purposes
as provided by law.
[...]
The Debian copyright however cites from r/pos/README that "The MWords
package was explicitly placed in the public domain". To me at least,
it's unclear whether the both READMEs were considered and if yes, it
would really help to add some clarifying statements in copyright why the
licensing terms in the (old?) README files don't apply (any more?).
I also reported an upstream bug at
https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/issues/333.
