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thanks

Carl Fürstenberg schrieb:
> Package: python-imaging
> Version: 1.1.6-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.2.1
> 
> Per requesting input on the license for python-imaging onto
> debial-legal
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/02/msg00057.html), 
> in which an resonse was made that the license is not DFSG compilant.
> Thus I notify you here about the issue and ask you, if possible, to
> resolve the issue.
> 
> The suggestion made is to try getting the software relicensed under an
> compatible license, e.g. for example /usr/share/doc/x11-apps/copyright.

forwarded to the upstream author on Feb 25.  Got a reply referencing the origin
of the license:

  PIL's license is the one used by Python up and until version 1.5.2.
  It's one of the original OSI-approved licenses; the OSI calls it
  "Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer":

     http://www.opensource.org/licenses/historical.php

please clarify if this OSI license is DFSG compliant. At least it was at a time
when python-1.5.2 was in the archive.

  Matthias



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