Your message dated Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:34:36 -0700
with message-id <20090321193436.ga20...@dario.dodds.net>
and subject line Re: feedback on #516997 missing
has caused the Debian Bug report #516997,
regarding python-imaging: License not compatible with DFSG
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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.
/Carl Fürstenberg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages python-imaging depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.6.8 register and build utility for Pyt
ii python-imaging-tk 1.1.6-3 Python Imaging Library - ImageTk M
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
python-imaging recommends no packages.
Versions of packages python-imaging suggests:
pn python-imaging-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn python-imaging-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:16:43PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> The bug submitter of #516997 apparently did ask for help on debian-legal
> before submitting this report, but didn't give any feedback on the
> upstream response. Please could the people involved with this followup on
> this report?
Looking back at the thread, I see that I was insufficiently verbose in my
reply.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/02/msg00069.html
When I said "no" as in "no, I don't see the ambiguity", I failed to clarify
that I meant there is no ambiguity because the wording is unambiguously free
to anyone familiar with ordinary legal language - not that it's
unambiguously non-free, as Ben Finney seems to maintain. Greg Harris has it
right, and Ben Finney as usual is coming up with absurd constructivist
non-free readings of licenses.
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