Hi Carlo, I'm trying to fix https://bugs.debian.org/768690 and I stumbled upon this bug. It seems to me that Mejiko is actually right - even debian/copyright mentions that code is under QPL. What is this "DFSG compatible license" that you are talking about?
Cheers, Tomasz On 10/04/12 02:52, Carlo Segre wrote: > > I beg to differ. There are two different versions of tgif. One is > licensed QPL and the other have a DFSG compatible license. The Debian > package has been built from the non-QPL licensed code and non-DFSG bits > have been removed with the cooperation of the upstream author. > > It has been so for more than a decade and therefore will stay in main. > > Carlo > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, mejiko wrote: > > >Package: tgif > >Severity: normal > > > >Hello. > > > >Tgif license is "Q Public License" version 1.0 . > >This license is not DFSG-Free. (e.g libcwd) > > > >Suggests: > > > >1. Tgif move to non-free. > >2. remove Tgif. > > > >Thanks. > > > >References: > > > >http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/tgif/tgif_4.1.45-3/tgif.copyright > >http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Q_Public_License_.28QPL.29.2C_Version_1.0 > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00131.html > > > > > >-- System Information: > >Debian Release: 6.0.4 > > APT prefers stable-updates > > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > >Architecture: i386 (i686) > > > >Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > >Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > > >Versions of packages tgif depends on: > >ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management > >sy > >ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization > >utilities > >ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > >lib > >ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange > >library > >ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library > >ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library > >ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension > >librar > >ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library > > > >tgif recommends no packages. > > > >tgif suggests no packages. > > > > > > > > -- > Carlo U. Segre -- Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics > Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College > Illinois Institute of Technology > Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 > [email protected] http://phys.iit.edu/~segre [email protected] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
