On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 12:21:47 +0100
Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:08:17 +0100 Ricardo Mones wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:12:54 +0100
> > "Francesco Poli (wintermute)" <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote:  
> [...]
> > >   Files: UltimateClawsMail0.5.1/*  
> [...]
> > >   License: CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0  
> [...]
> > > 
> > > This is non-free, since it's non-commercial.
> > > Please persuade its upstream copyright holder to re-license it
> > > under DFSG-free terms (such as the GNU GPL) or drop the theme
> > > from the package.  
> > 
> > Curiously enough, upstream site¹ says it's licensed under GPL:
> >   
> > > The author of the Ultimate Gnome theme has graciously allowed me to
> > > publish Ultimate Claws Mail under the GPL rather than Creative Commons.
> > > UCM is now licensed under the GPL v3.  
> 
> That's encouraging! Thanks for investigating.
> 
> > 
> > But the themeinfo metadata included in the tarball still says CC...  
> 
> Very awkward...
> 
> > not sure
> > if the above is enough to update the license on Debian's copyright and
> > themeinfo or not though. What do you think?  
> [...]
> 
> I think the best way forward is to get in touch with upstream copyright
> holders and seek clarification.

That can be difficult, since I'm unable to find any address of the Author
within the upstream website or tarball.

Furthermore seems that discussion already happened:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/ultimate-claws-mail/issues/1

> Ideally, the metadata included in the upstream distribution tar archive
> should be consistent with the statement on the upstream website.
>
> I would be great, if that theme were clearly and explicitly licensed
> under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Yeah, agreed, but given I doubt that can be possible at this point to make
upstream release a new tarball just to fix those bits, specially without a
contact address. Will try to ask upstream if somebody has his contact,
otherwise I'm afraid the only solution will be the removal.

regards,
-- 
 Ricardo Mones
 http://people.debian.org/~mones
 «Try to divide your time evenly to keep others happy.»

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