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and subject line Bug#445020: fixed in edict 2008.02.13-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #445020,
regarding edict & kanjidic: License discrepancy between the Debian package and
upstream, upstream's license being non-free
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Package: edict
Version: 2006.10.09-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Hi,
Current license for edict and kanjidic seems to be CC by-sa 2.5, which
is different from a custom license described in debian/copyright and
is not DFSG-free. IMHO the best solution for this situation is
proposing an upgrade of the license to CC by-sa 3.0 and including
licence.html in the source packages.
Detailed descriptions
=====================
First of all, there are three facts:
* Although the license statement described in debian/copyright in the
edict and kanjidic packages seems to be a custom license of the
Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash
University, which is considered to be DFSG-free, the online license
statement[1] says these packages are distributed under CC by-sa.
* There are no license descriptions in .orig.tar.gz tarballs of Debian
source packages for edict and kanjidic, which seem to be rolled by
you package maintainers since the upstream does not distribute the
software (dictionary data files) as a tarball. However,
edict_doc.html and kanjidic_doc.html point the online license page
for license information. So, what is described on that page now is
the actual license statement.
* The online license page only says that the license for distribution
is CC by-sa and does not specify its version. However, the license
deed and full license code linked from that page is ones of CC by-sa
2.5, which is not considered to be DFSG-free.
>From these facts, I guess that the upstream changed the license from
the custom one to CC by-sa 2.5 without notice. It is obvious from
web.archive.org[2] that the current license was already used in July,
2006.
To solve this situation, I make two proposals:
* To give the upstream suggestions to upgrade the license to CC by-sa
3.0 and to specify that version clearly in the license page.
* To include licence.html in the Debian source packages for edict and
kanjidic.
Although whether Debian now declare CC by 3.0 and CC by-sa 3.0 to be
DFSG-free or not was uncertain[3], I hope CC by-sa 3.0 is considered
to be DFSG-free now that ttf-konatu[4], a Japanese font package
licensed by CC by-sa 3.0, has got in the Debian main archive.
# I am maintaining the skkdic package and its upstream release
# contains an edict-derivative dictionary (My predecessors and I have
# considered it to be non-free and excluded it from the package).
# Also, I'd like to package a program which uses kanjidic2.xml. So, I
# hope I will hear a good news.
[1] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edrdg/licence.html
[2]
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edrdg/licence.html
[3] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#Debian
[4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/ttf-konatu.html
Many thanks,
-nori
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Source: edict
Source-Version: 2008.02.13-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
edict, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
edict_2008.02.13-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/e/edict/edict_2008.02.13-1.diff.gz
edict_2008.02.13-1.dsc
to pool/main/e/edict/edict_2008.02.13-1.dsc
edict_2008.02.13-1_all.deb
to pool/main/e/edict/edict_2008.02.13-1_all.deb
edict_2008.02.13.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/e/edict/edict_2008.02.13.orig.tar.gz
enamdict_2008.02.13-1_all.deb
to pool/main/e/edict/enamdict_2008.02.13-1_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated edict package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:27:22 +0100
Source: edict
Binary: edict enamdict
Architecture: source all
Version: 2008.02.13-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
edict - English / Japanese dictionary
enamdict - Dictionary of Japanese proper names
Closes: 445020
Changes:
edict (2008.02.13-1) unstable; urgency=high
.
* New upstream release
* RC bug fix: urgency = high
* The maintainer changed the license to CC by-sa 3.0. Closes: #445020
* Updated the license in the copyright file
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