Package: wbar
Severity: serious
Many (most?) of this package's icons are suspiciously taken from Apple's
Mac OS X non-free user interface.
No source code is provided in the source package is provided for them
and there is no statement of the licenses in the copyright file (besides
claiming that they are all under the GPL).
I'm not even sure if this package is redistributable in non-free (thus,
the severity of this bug) and debian-legal should be consulted.
One option of continuing the distribution of this program in Debian
would be to remove all non-free icons from the package and put a
recommendation/dependency on a set of Free artwork.
There are other, less optimal options, like providing a script in the
package to download the icons from any other place if the users wants to
do so. Of course, this package would probably have to be moved into
contrib if this were the case.
BTW, here is a short description of the icons present in this package and
the suspected "cloned"/copied icon that I could recognize at once:
acroread.png: apple's Dictionary
beagle.png: apple's Spotlight
gmplayer.png: apple's iMovie?
gnucash.png: apple's Notes?
nautilus.png: apple's icon from Finder
ooffice.png: microsoft's Office for Mac
thunderbird.png: apple's Mail.app
xmms.png: apple's iTunes
Please, either clarify the situation or fix the problem, so that
Debian's repository isn't compromised from a legal point-of-view.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc5-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wbar depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library
ii libimlib2 1.4.2-5 powerful image loading and renderi
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
pn ttf-dustin <none> (no description available)
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
wbar recommends no packages.
wbar suggests no packages.
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Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito
Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org
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