Package: blackbox-themes Version: 0.2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3
The copyright statement in debian/copyright has been "fixed" to declare that the whole package is copyright Bruno Barrera; that's not right. While a lot of the upstreams don't seem to take copyright and licensing issues very seriously, that doesn't mean they're not important for Debian. Here, AFAICT, are the copyright statuses of each section of this package. Some might present serious problems, usually with the copyright status of the background image. Styles that look definitely legal to distribute: Reaction, WhiteBox Styles that look okay, but seem to need an explicit indication of licensing terms (via email from the author or whatever): Bombskew, Eon Silver, Igloo, Nva91, Void Style that looks to me like it's illegal to distribute: Nijikon I'm sorry if this seems pedantic, but licensing is important (particularly in a case like Nijikon, where it's not just a "we didn't get all the paperwork together" thing but a "the guy who made the image actively doesn't want it to be used and distributed like this" thing). I apologize in advance for any mistakes or licensing arrangements I'm not aware of in the listing below. If you'd like, I can try to contact the upstream authors and artists and find out what their wishes are, and try to get them to license their works under more explicit terms when necessary. Here's the long list of copyright statuses I was able to figure out: === Bombskew style * Copyright: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/bombskew/ * License: GPL === Bombskew background * Copyright: "eric- at deviantART" * Upstream: Presumably somewhere on deviantart.com; I couldn't find it. * License: No indication is given of special licensing terms, and deviantart.com definitely seems to think that redistribution of images without permission is not okay (see http://about.deviantart.com/policy/etiquette/). === Eon Silver style * Copyright: [EMAIL PROTECTED], but based on SimpleSmoothGray and Platinum. * SimpleSmoothGray is from http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/themes.php, with no explicit licensing terms (though fluxbox is BSD-style licensed so it's probably okay). * Platinum is from http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/platinum/ and is GPL licensed. * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/eon01/ * License: GPL === Eon Silver background * Copyright: Bandar Hassan Raffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://www.sadeem.net/tux.html * License: "This site is a small gift to all Linux and Mac users." No explicit licensing terms that I can see. === Igloo * Copyright: Carlos Oliva G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: Couldn't find * License: Couldn't find (probably okay). === Nijikon style * Copyright: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Upstream: Couldn't find; I used http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/X11/themes/bb/Nijikon-0.60.0-200012050156.tar.gz * License: No explicit terms. === Nijikon background * Copyright: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Upstream: http://www.deaddreamer.com/v10/freeze/toonz.html * License: Definitely not okay. "every publication or redistribution requires my written permission" "if you know anyone who uses parts of my images ... contact me." === Nva91 style * Copyright: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or possibly [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/nva91/ * License: GPL === Nva91 background * Copyright: "Venox and Niytros" * Upstream: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/646793/ (sort of) * License: No explicit terms. === Reaction style & (presumably) background * Copyright: Youngjin Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/reaction/ * License: GPL === Void style * Copyright: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Upstream: Couldn't find; I used http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/X11/themes/bb/Void-0.60.0-200006131620.tar.gz * License: No explicit terms. === Void background * "I think I got this from endeffect.com, or one of their affiliates. It looked purty ..." I couldn't find it, but I think it's safe to say "no explicit terms." * The style file does say "My thanks to fli73, where I got this wonderful background." === WhiteBox style & background * Copyright: Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whitebox/ * License: GPL -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages blackbox-themes depends on: ii blackbox 0.70.0-2 Window manager for X -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
