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and subject line perspic has been removed from Debian, closing #512015
has caused the Debian Bug report #512015,
regarding debian/copyright doesn't list all licenses, no-sell license, no
source for texts
to be marked as done.
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Package: perspic-texts
Version: 1.5-5.1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 4.5, 2.3
debian/copyright states only that the package is GPL.
perspic-texts is 16MB of compressed data, in a format for reading by Perspic.
If I understand correctly, the data is a derivative work.
>From README.texts:
Perspic supplies several pre-indexed and compressed binary archives of
texts freely available on the Internet from various locations. As a
text searching and word reference program, perspic supplies to the
user only excerpts from these texts. The full versions of the
original documents cannot be retrieved without significant alterations
to the program itself. Should a user of perspic do so, he or she
should be aware that these documents often come with their own
copyright statements, which are binding on the end user. As certain
of these are supplied separately from the texts themselves, they are
included here for reference.
The last sentence suggests that there are copyright statements within the data
that aren't reproduced outside the binary blob. Bug #511199 prevents me from
looking at the compressed data.
They're in blob form in the package-source too (and the filenames start with a
'.').
In addition to the religious texts (which I'd guess would be mainly
public-domain), there's a thesaurus, and something about translations.
The copyright statement that is reproduced in README.texts is a no-sell license:
These documents may not be sold for profit or
incorporated in commercial documents without the written permission of the
Baha'i International Community.
...
Permission is expressly granted for these documents to be made available
for file transfer from installations offering unrestricted anonymous file
transfer on the Internet. These documents are provided as is without any
express or implied warranty. Permission for re-use of these documents in
"value-added" or "for profit" re-publications (in print or electronic
formats), may be requested from: ...
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Version: 1.5-5.1+rm
The perspic package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/512736 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Kind regards,
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Marco Rodrigues
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