severity 694270 important retitle 694270 figlet: Inaccurate Unicode Inc. license text clone 694270 -1 retitle -1 figlet: Inaccurate WTFPL v2 license text thanks
Hi Francesco, On 24/11/12 22:19, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > while reviewing the debian/copyright file of the (finally back in main!) > figlet package, I noticed two issues. > > > The first is an inaccurate copying of a license text: > > | Files: tests/emboss.tlf > | Copyright: 2006 Sam Hocevar <s...@hocevar.net> > | License: WTFPL-2 > | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified > | copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long > | as the name is changed. > > This is not the actual text of the WTFPL v2, which is instead > reported at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING > > Please fix the debian/copyright file. Thanks for pointing this out. This issue is not an RC issue though, so I'm going to downgrade it, and clone it as a separate issue to keep track of it. > The second issue is the most important one (and it gives the title > to this bug report): > > | Files: fonts/8859-*.flc > | Copyright: 1991-2003 Unicode Inc. > | License: other > | This file is provided as-is by Unicode, Inc. (The Unicode Consortium). > | No claims are made as to fitness for any particular purpose. No > | warranties of any kind are expressed or implied. The recipient > | agrees to determine applicability of information provided. If this > | file has been provided on optical media by Unicode, Inc., the sole > | remedy for any claim will be exchange of defective media within 90 > | days of receipt. > | . > | Unicode, Inc. hereby grants the right to freely use the information > | supplied in this file in the creation of products supporting the > | Unicode Standard, and to make copies of this file in any form for > | internal or external distribution as long as this notice remains > | attached. > > This license fails to meet the DFSG (#3 and #6) and is > GPL-incompatible, as discussed in the following old debian-legal > thread: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00534.html > > Please read that debian-legal thread, as it includes potentially > useful information on how some files copyrighted by Unicode Inc. > may perhaps get re-licensed under DFSG-free terms. > > Please try to have those files re-licensed in a DFSG-free manner, > or, failing that, please drop them by re-packing the source > orig.tar.gz archive. The files in question have been sourced from here [1], and as such, have already been relicensed under the Unicode Inc. Licence Agreement [2]. I'm going to also downgrade this, and I'll update the copyright file with this licence in the next upload. Thanks for your interest in FIGlet! Jon [1] http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ [2] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
