Hi Robert, Thanks for bring this to my attention; I agree that we should remove the package, as I checked the two files and both mention that they are derived from sample code. I can't believe I didn't see that; I thought the only copyright violation was the old header from Mozilla which was replaced.
Aubin P.S. Is Oliver using my patches? On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:37:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi Aubin! > > Olivier Debon (upstream maintainer of libflash) just told me that > some files in libflash cannot be licensed under the GPL: > > ./lib/adpcm.cc > ./lib/script.cc > > because they are (or appear to be) a derived work from macromedia's > copyrighted code. he said he's working on a replacement and will > release a fixed version in a few weeks. > > please could you invistigate on this? it could be that libflash needs to > be removed from debian until the issue is solved. > > I'm CCing debian-legal > > cheers, > > -- > Robert Millan > > "5 years from now everyone will be running > free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" > > Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
