Your message dated Fri, 12 Feb 2016 01:10:01 +0000
with message-id <e1au2ff-0006g2...@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#814357: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #756871,
regarding fatrat-unpack: non-distributable: GPL'd code linked to non-GPL unrar
library
to be marked as done.
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Package: fatrat-unpack
Version: 1.1.3-2
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 2.3
While investigating #739308 I noticed that fatrat-unpack is licensed under
the GPL without any apparent non-GPL-linking exceptions, but links to
code that imposes restrictions beyond those of the GPL (the non-Free unrar
library). This means Debian does not have permission to distribute the
resulting binaries.
The authors of fatrat-unpack probably intended to be licensing it under
the GPL with a special exception that it may be linked to the non-Free
unrar code. However, they don't seem to have explicitly said so.
If the copyright holders are willing to relicense fatrat-unpack under
"GPL with exception" terms, similar to the exception documented in
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/w/wget/unstable_copyright
in which the copyright holders explicitly allow linking it to OpenSSL,
that would solve this.
Regards,
S
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'),
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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Version: 1.1.3-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package fatrat-unpack has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/814357
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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