Hi,
my suggestion is to remove fpc from oldstable and stable but unblock the unstable version 2.2.2-4 for lenny and trigger binNMUs for lazarus. What do you think? What is the correct way to remove packages from (old)stable? Should I file a bug report against ftp.debian.org or is it done by the SRM? Cheers, Torsten On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Note: I'm the FPC core developer that also features in the Ubuntu > correspondance. Carlos (the maintainer of this port) can confirm that, or > have a look here: http://www.freepascal.org/aboutus.var > > The probable infringement was brought to our attention in early 2007. > The infringement was made amenable mostly due to trivial means (variable > names, fairly small procedures that were the same). > > The other side was really cooperative, and gave us time to clean up > massively, without having to immediately pull all sources, and we employed > at tool to identify potential problem sources, and found a lot more. > > So we cut real wide, and reengineered all potentially infringing code. (all > in all a nontrivial amount). > > However because the infringement was so trivial, and relicensing > counterproductive and confusion, it was decided to pull all releases. > > So in august, after 2.2.2 came out, we removed all older releases from our > site, and assumed the mentioning of the copyright problems in our release > manifest would be enough to warrant a swift upgrade. > > I hope it need no explanation that that was a pretty painful step, removing > 10 years of history of our project. > > However, here we are now, 3-4 months after the release and the heads up, and > the infringing code is still served from Debian servers. We are not happy > with this. Note that it is also not fair to the other party who has been > patient, and now could see the code still floating around. > > In short: please remove the old versions as soon as possible, or upgrade. > > Marco. > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
