Package: bacula Version: 1.38.9-9 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1
The copyright file states that parts of Bacula are licensed under the GNU GPL v2, plus additional conditions, among which the following one: | Termination for IP or Patent Action: | In addition to the termination clause specified in the GPL, this | license shall terminate automatically and you may no longer | exercise any of the rights granted to you by this license as of | the date you commence an action, including a cross-claim or | counterclaim, against any licensor of GPL software alleging that | the software infringes an intellectual property right or a | patent. Special dispensation from or delay to the execution of | this clause may be possible by applying directly to the license | owner of this software. Such a dispensation or delay is valid | only in writing and signed by the one or more of the license | holders. This "hyper-retaliation" clause does *not* comply with the DFSG: upstream should be persuaded to drop it. Details are discussed on debian-legal in the thread that starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00107.html This serious bug is just a reminder that this issue has to be solved before bacula manages to enter another stable release... I hope it can be dealt with soon... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
