Package: manpages-hu Version: 20010119-7 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 X-Debbugs-Cc: Mario Blättermann <[email protected]>
Short: man8/ssh.8 states: .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <[email protected]>, Espoo, Finland .\" All rights reserved Long: The copyright situation is very unclear. I reviewed some files and besides the above one some are "GNU licensed" (without version), some require redistribution of copyright information in binary versions (I'm not sure if 2.3 Nr.3 remedies this), while others don't come with any statement at all. And debian/copyright places the burden of proof on the users in case comercial distribution is intended (e.g. Debian downstreams like Ubuntu). I wonder how this passed debian-legal? (This is just a selection, e.g. man.7,tsort.1,as.1 are interesting as well…) I tried looking at the mentioned upstream homepage, i.e. http://lme.linux.hu/forditas/index.html but this page is down atm. To resolve this bug, I suggest the following: 1. Remove all pages like ssh.8 which are clearly not distributable (After contacting with upstream or the respective authors they might be included in later versions again, if the license is updated) 2. Create a machine readable copyright including all authors (both of the english version and the respective translators) and the respective licenses. 3. Get the copyrights reviewed, e.g. on debian-legal, possibly catching more pages which cannot be distributed. 4. Check with upstream about a newer version. The pages are *old*. Is this really a service to your users? 5. Talk to manpages-l10n for integration of those pages, where copyright allows so. This way the maintance both for legal reasons and for updating (we use po4a) is vastly improved. Bonus if some translators are available, who could update the pages (its much easier with po4a). -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) manpages-hu depends on no packages. manpages-hu recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages-hu suggests: ii man-db [man] 2.9.4-2 -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [email protected] Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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