On 2013-02-02 14:21, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
FYI. Originally sent to wrong bug number. Sorry about lack of
responsiveness this week I'm a bit ill
Sorry to hear that you're not well, I hope you feel better soon.
I included Steven Pemberton in CC to save going back and forth
continually.
I should point out that gcc includes enquire with exactly the same
wording, so if anyone has a problem with xgks, then that is the least
of their problems :-)
I believe that this license is fine, because packaging costs (selling
a CD) are not licensing costs. It is still available for free, and so
the conditions of the license are fulfilled. This section was added
because Oracle stole the code once, modified it, added their own
copyright notice, and sold it, and the license wording is trying to
prevent that happening again. However, the wording comes from the
very
beginning days of the free-software era.
I'm not really that fussed about the license wording because as far as
I'm concerned it's fine. The point I wish to resolve is the one raised
by Luke in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699066#10,
that is:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 07:31:33PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
> Package: xgks
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Violates the DFSG
Additional violations noted below.
xgks-2.7.0/src/port/misc/inetutil.c and
xgks-2.7.0/src/port/misc/inetutil.h:
> /*
> * Copyright 1991, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research.
> * Not for Direct Resale. All copies to include this
notice.
> */
> /* $Id: inetutil.c,v 1.1 2000/08/07 23:15:03 emmerson Exp $ */
xgks-2.7.0/src/fontdb/hf2gks.c:
> COPYRIGHT, 1990, FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Without any other license.
What is the status of these two files and particularly these copyright
assertions? There is no documentation in the package, upstream or our
part, that implies we have permission to use these files (at least that
I could find).
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