Package: vim-common Version: 2:7.4.488-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.5
Hello and thanks for maintaining my favorite text editor in Debian! It has been recently noticed that package vim-common includes the xxd command which used to be licensed in a non-free manner and is not documented in the debian/copyright file: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/01/msg00033.html Luckily, the author and copyright holder for xxd kindly agreed to dual-license it under the "X11-MIT license" or the GNU GPL v2 (at the user's choice): https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/01/msg00037.html I asked for and obtained confirmation that Jürgen intended to adopt the Expat/MIT license (and the GNU GPL v2 as an explicit further option, at the user's choice): https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/01/msg00038.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/01/msg00039.html Please document this dual-licensing status of xxd in the debian/copyright file. Thanks for your time! Bye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
