Package: noshell
Version: 4.0.11-4
Severity: normal
Hello,
it seems that the noshell license file in
/usr/share/doc/noshell/copyright is out of date: The differences
between the file in the source package and in the Debian directory are
as follows:
--- cs 2006-11-05 18:04:27.000000000 +0000
+++ titantools-4.0.11/LICENSE 2003-11-20 07:56:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
- Titan Security Toolkit (�)
+ Titan Security Toolkit�
Release 4.1
The authors (Brad, Dan and Matt) would like to take this opportunity
to thank the employers who supported this effort as well as some
freeware authors who have made direct or indirect and positive
- contributions to the development of Titan: SUN, EarhLink, Alec Muffett,
+ contributions to the development of Titan: SUN, Alec Muffett,
Casper Dik, Wietse Venema, David Safford, Keith Watson, and many others
I find it a bit strange that "EarhLink" was removed, but maybe we
should reflect upstream here.
A more worrying thing is the following, hard to parse statement from
the titantools homepage at http://www.trouble.org/titan/:
Titan is, and has been, publically distributed under copyright and
license by Team Titan (Brad, Matt and Dan) since May 1998.
This is to state the conditions under which this Package known as
Titan, which is copyright Brad M. Powell, Dan Farmer, and Matthew
Archibald, may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains
some control over the development of the package, while giving the
users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a
more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable
modifications.
Notwithstanding any other agreement or any other provision herein,
effective January 15, 2005, an entity with greater than 400 employees
shall be required to obtain written permission from Team Titan in
order to download, print, access, view, distribute or otherwise use in
any way the Package or other files known as Titan. For purposes
herein, an entity includes its employees, agents, affiliates,
partners, contractors etc.
I cannot quite grasp the intention here and also I do not know whether
this is legally binding, but the last paragraph seems to have the
potential to render the package non-free.
I hope this helps,
Jochen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages noshell depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
noshell recommends no packages.
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