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Package: imagej
Version: 1.39b-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.5

Dear Paolo,

Many thanks for bringing ImageJ into Debian!

In your copyright file, you write:

 Copyright Holder: Wayne Rasband, [EMAIL PROTECTED], for the NIH
 
 License:
 
    This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

This strongly suggests that ImageJ is released under the GPL, however
as explained in the disclaimer you cite, it is in the public domain:

 ImageJ is being developed at the National Institutes of Health by an
 employee of the Federal Government in the course of his official duties.
 Pursuant to Title 17, Section 105 of the United States Code, this software
 is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
 ImageJ is an experimental system. NIH assumes no responsibility whatsoever
 for its use by other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied,
 about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic.

Unless there are some files in the sources which are released under
the GPL (in the /debian directory ?), it is not necessary to keep this
extract in the copyright file. In addition, 

 Copyright Holder: Wayne Rasband, [EMAIL PROTECTED], for the NIH

could be replaced by:

 Author : Wayne Rasband, [EMAIL PROTECTED], for the NIH

Because there is on copyright holder for works in the public domain.

Have a nice day,

-- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc64
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages imagej depends on:
ii  blackdown-j2re1.3 [java2-runt 1.3.1      Java(TM) 2 RE, Standard Edition, B
ii  gij [java2-runtime]           4:4.1.1-15 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runtime]       4.1.1-20   The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  ibm-j2re1.5 [java2-runtime]   1.5.0      Java(TM) 2 RE, Standard Edition, I
ii  ibm-j2sdk1.5 [java2-runtime]  1.5.0      Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, 

imagej recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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