Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-5
Severity: normal

Hello,

I read the gnuplot license:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnuplot/gnuplot_4.0.0-5/gnuplot.copyright

It is a non-common license. I noticied a conflictive clausule:
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 *   3. provide your name and address as the primary contact for the
 *    support of your modified version, and
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(other clausules should fit in DFSG)

I commented the license in this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/12/msg00205.html

and specially, we talked about point 3:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/12/msg00209.html

Executing gnuplot, the primary contact is not the Debian maintainer mail
and so on, is gnuplot upstream. Should be the debian maintainer (but
remember to keep the original upstream as secondary contract, point 4 of
gnuplot license).

As I am not used to read licenses, maybe I missunderstood something,
feel free to correct me :-)

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Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii  gnuplot-nox                   4.0.0-5    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  gnuplot-x11                   4.0.0-5    X11-terminal driver for gnuplot

gnuplot recommends no packages.

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