Package: foo2zjs Version: foo2zjs Severity: serious Tags: upstream Justification: violates DFSG, violates should constraint in policy § 4.13
I was told by an anonymous user in #debian on OFTC (logs upon request available), that the foo2zjs package is making use of patentended code, embedded into its source. foo2zjs uses the jbigkit library [1] which in turn consists of paten- ted code [2]. Examples can be found in the following files: * jbig_ar.c * jbig_ar.h * jbig.c * jbig.h all those files cleary state their origin. In addition, the jbigkit library was intented to be packaged for Debian [3] but was never introduced to Debian (as far as I can tell) because of this reason. Considering this unclear code distri- butability and the Debian patent FAQ [4], I hereby request for comments about this issue and possible solutions. Please note the original reporters intention was to include, possibly even package jbigkit for Debian. So his point of view was to either allow jbigkit to be packaged or foo2zjs to be removed (or cleaned of patented bits) for consistency. This seemed feasible to me. I personally am not particularly interested in either package, but would like to have this problem addressed. [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/ [2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/patents/ [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466427 [4] http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
