Package: afio Version: 2.5-5 Severity: serious the license for afio is non-free. see /usr/share/doc/afio/copyright:
* ------------------------------------------------------------------ * * License notice 1, covering part of this software package. * * [Covers the original 1985 afio code] * * Copyright (c) 1985 Lachman Associates, Inc.. * * This software was written by Mark Brukhartz at Lachman Associates, * Inc.. It may be distributed within the following restrictions: * (1) It may not be sold at a profit. * (2) This credit and notice must remain intact. * This software may be distributed with other software by a commercial * vendor, provided that it is included at no additional charge. * * * [Note: it is believed that condition 5 of the Perl "Artistic * License" implies the intent of restriction (1) above.] * * -------- the core of the issue is condition (1), which discriminates against fields of endeavor (DFSG #6). in all actuality, the licensing issue looks quite complex: see blog [1] and redhat bug [2]. note that redhat's response was to remove the package. also, cpio supposedly provides the same functionality as afio, so it may not even be necessary to provide this package. after seeing the blog, the FSF declared afio non-free [3]. i'm marking this as serious for now since this is a DFSG violation, but i can appreciate a decision to mark it lenny-ignore or to temporarily downgrade it to important since the release is impending. [1] http://spot.livejournal.com/303000.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037 [3] http://directory.fsf.org/project/afio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
