Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: vrms
vrms lists the package cdrecord as non-free.
IMHO this should not be the case.
According to /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/copyright, all the components in the
package are licensed under GPL:
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* cdda2wav
Copyright 1998-2003 Heiko Eissfeldt
parts (C) Peter Widow
parts (C) Thomas Niederreiter
parts (C) RSA Data Security, Inc.
License: GPLv2
* mkisofs
Written by Eric Youngdale (1993).
Copyright 1993 Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1999,2000-2004 J. Schilling
APPLE_HYB James Pearson j.pear...@ge.ucl.ac.uk 22/2/2000
License: GPLv2
* libedc compact disc reed-solomon routines
(c) 1998-2002 by Heiko Eissfeldt, he...@colossus.escape.de
(c) 2002 by Joerg Schilling
License: GPLv2
* libhfs_iso - Modified version of libhfs (v2.0) to work with mkhybrid.
(C) 1996, 1997 Robert Leslie
License: GPLv2
* libcdparanoia
(C) by Monty (xiphm...@mit.edu)
Modifications to make the code portable Copyright (c) 2002 J. Schilling
License: GPLv2
* readcd
Copyright (c) 1987, 1995-2003 J. Schilling
License: GPLv2
* zisofs-tools:
Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
* 02110-1301 USA; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
* later version; incorporated herein by reference.
* geteltorito
Author: Rainer Krienke
Email: krie...@uni-koblenz.de
License: GPL
Version: 0.3
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The actual output of vrms is attached.
I use Ubuntu 9.04.
vrms:
Installed: 1.14
Candidate: 1.14
Version table:
*** 1.14 0
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: vrms (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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vrms reports cdrecord as non-free
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404699
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