Package: abduco Version: 0.1-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Hi,
abduco is derived from dtach, which is licensed under GPLv2. However, abduco is licensed under ISC with dtach's copyright notices removed. While abduco may be considered a rewrite of dtach that just has similar looking portions of code left in it, http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise27.html says that: "Many people have reimplemented computer programs by rewriting them to replace the source code with code of their own writing. There is no reason to believe that this would not be a copyright infringement, particularly if the reimplementer had access to the source code of the original program, even if none of the original source code remains." abduco should not be a part of Debian if it is violating dtach's copyright and license. -- Ned T. Crigler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
