Your message dated Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:55:40 +0000
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and subject line Bug#491537: fixed
has caused the Debian Bug report #491537,
regarding vmware-package: non-distributable files ?!?
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.22
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3
Hi!
I've just read the debian/copyright file of vmware-package.
It states, in part:
| This package may contain non-distributable files copyrighted by
| VMware, Inc.
| Such files may be subject to the proprietary VMware EULA.
Huh?!?
This package may include undistributable files, yet the Debian
Project is distributing them anyway?!?
Does the Debian Project has some special permission to distribute
those files?
If this is the case, then it should be clarified in the debian/copyright
file; moreover, the package should be moved to non-free, since a
Debian-specific permission to distribute fails DFSG#8 and contrib
packages must comply with the DFSG (Policy 2.2.2).
If, on the other hand, no special permission was granted to the
Debian Project to distribute those files, then I think the
Debian Project should stop distributing them immediately,
since continuing to do so seems to be a copyright violation!
If the situation is different from the above two cases, then I
think it's definitely unclear: please explain.
Thanks in advance.
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--- Begin Message ---
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
vmware-package | 0.22 | source, amd64, i386
Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
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removed from the Bug Tracking System. Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.
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