Your message dated Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:37:12 +0000
with message-id <e1qpqsm-00evb1...@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#1032736: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #906011,
regarding pdftk does not properly attribute iText, may violate GPL
to be marked as done.
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Package: pdftk
Version: 2.02-2
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 2.1
pdftk is under GPLv2.
It uses at least two LGPLv2 libraries, iText and iconv.
Notably, iText is PDF-processing software essential to pdftk's main purpose.
iText is embedded directly into pdftk's source in modified form
(https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-license/).
(iconv does not appear to be embedded.)
It appears that (for iText) it is using the provision allowing converting
LGPLv2 to GPLv2.
In that case, it's bound by GPLv2 2(c), which says:
"If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you
must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most
ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate
copyright notice".
There is such a notice (pdftk --help) with copyright and warranty info.
However, it does not mention iText.
Alternatively, if it is using LGPLv2 6 ("As an exception to the Sections above,
you may also compile or
link a "work that uses the Library"") (though I am not sure if this is usable
if the library is embedded in the source),
there are similar requirements:
"If the work during execution displays copyright notices, you must include the
copyright notice for the Library among them, as well as a reference directing
the user to the copy of this License."
All the authors of iText should be included in this runtime copyright statement
and the man page.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.11
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages pdftk depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u10
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10+deb8u1
ii libgcj15 4.9.2-10+deb8u1
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10+deb8u1
pdftk recommends no packages.
Versions of packages pdftk suggests:
ii poppler-utils [xpdf-utils] 0.26.5-2+deb8u4
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.02-5+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package pdftk 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/1032736
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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