Hi,
On Aug 30 01:42, Sami Liedes wrote:
>
> [Cc: to debian-legal]
>
> The source package contains the file scripts/gpsfetchmap.pl, which
> has this copyright notice:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # gpsfetchmap
> #
> # You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want
> # except you cannot modify this copyright details
> # or remove the polite feature.
> #
> # NO WARRANTY.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The "polite feature" apparently refers to an option that sleeps
> between web server accesses.
>
> While arguably a minor restriction, I wonder if debian-legal considers
> this sufficient to render the file non-free, and whether the terse
> license clearly enough grants all the permissions required for it to
> be free. Of course if you feel I'm just nitpicking, feel free to close
> the bug.
This restriction is clearly not dfsg free and for that reason i removed
the file from the upstream tarball.
gpsdrive (2.10~pre4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* Repackage upstream tarball to remove the debian/ dir.
Added get-orig-source target to debian/rules.
* Removed gpsfetchmap.pl from upstream tarball due to license issues.
A new version has been released under GPL which will be installed from
debian/scripts/gpsfetchmap.pl now. Updated the manpage for that reason.
* Removed map-icons with unclear licenses.
[..]
-- Andreas Putzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:00:05 +0000
The get-orig-source target in debian/rules removes gpsfetchmap.pl from
the upstream tarball. Somehow the original tarball got uploaded and i
can only assume that this happend during the sponsoring process.
Question is now how to clean up this mess. As written in the changelog
gpsfetchmap.pl is now GPL-2 licensed and shouldn't be much of a problem.
But the source package contains some icons as well and since i wasn't
able to obtain the licenses for all of them (some are taken from
openclipart and wikipedia) i removed them as well.
Should i do a sourceful upload with the modified upstream tarball that
was intended to go into the archive from the beginning?
Regards,
Andreas
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