Package: mplayer Version: 1.0~rc1-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Hi! First of all, many thanks for the hard work that was necessary to get MPlayer into Debian! :-) There seems to be still a licensing issue, though... :-( According to its debian/copyright[1], mplayer includes a file named mmx.h, whose licensing status is: | File: mmx.h | Copyright: 1997-99 by H. Dietz and R. Fisher | License: | THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY | EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT | LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY | AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Well, this is a disclaimer of warranty, not a license. Where's the permission to redistribute (DFSG#1)? Where's the permission to modify (DFSG#3)? Assuming the one quoted above is the whole "license" for the file, mmx.h does *not* comply with the DFSG and is *not* even distributable! The legal status of this file should be clarified, in order to get it under a DFSG-free license. BTW, there's another issue: the debian/copyright[1] file states: | Name: GSM 06.10 library | Version: patchlevel 10 | Homepage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html | Copyright 1992 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet Berlin | Directory: libmpcodecs/native/ | License: | Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is | not removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische | Universitaet Berlin are deemed to have made any representations as to | the suitability of this software for any purpose nor are held | responsible for any defects of this software. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO | WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE. | As a matter of courtesy, the authors request to be informed about | uses this software has found, about bugs in this software, and about | any improvements that may be of general interest. The term "use" is vague and could be interpreted in a strict sense as meaning only "to run" or "to execute" the library. This license should be clarified: persuading upstream to change the first line in ] Any reproduction and use of this software, with or without modification, ] is permitted provided that this notice is would suffice to make it unambiguously DFSG-free. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-1/mplayer.copyright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
