Your message dated Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:11:53 +0000
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and subject line Bug#563344: Removed package(s) from experimental
has caused the Debian Bug report #563344,
regarding RM: povray -- 3.7 unredistributable
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: povray
Version: 1:3.7.0~beta29-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3
Today I found that POV-Ray 3.7 is packaged in experimental:
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/povray
It's also patched to disable the beta expiration:
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/povray/1:3.7.0~beta29-1/80_beta.diff
This seems to violate the beta license in *every possible way*.
POV-Ray 3.7 betas are released under the normal POV-Ray license (which is
non-free according to DFSG) *plus four significant restrictions* not present
in final releases:
* NOTICE
*
* This file is part of a BETA-TEST version of POV-Ray version 3.7. It is not
* final code. Use of this source file is governed by both the standard POV-Ray
* licences referred to in the copyright header block above this notice, and the
* following additional restrictions numbered 1 through 4 below:
*
* 1. This source file may not be re-distributed without the written
permission
* of Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
*
* 2. This notice may not be altered or removed.
*
* 3. Binaries generated from this source file by individuals for their own
* personal use may not be re-distributed without the written permission
* of Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. Such personal-use binaries
* are not required to have a timeout, and thus permission is granted in
* these circumstances only to disable the timeout code contained within
* the beta software.
*
* 4. Binaries generated from this source file for use within an
organizational
* unit (such as, but not limited to, a company or university) may not be
* distributed beyond the local organizational unit in which they were
made,
* unless written permission is obtained from Persistence of Vision
Raytracer
* Pty. Ltd. Additionally, the timeout code implemented within the beta may
* not be disabled or otherwise bypassed in any manner.
(taken from one of the source files from the upstream source tarball)
The Debian package is redistributing entire source code of POV-Ray 3.7,
available
through packages.debian.org website and "apt-get source -texperimental povray".
This violates clause 1.
The extra license restrictions for 3.7 betas are not mentioned in any file
in /usr/share/doc/povray, which *I think* may violate clause 2.
The Debian package has a patch disabling the beta timeout code, which is
only allowed for personal use (according to clause 3), not for wider
distribution.
In addition, I don't think a Linux distribution counts as an "organizational
unit" as mentioned in clause 4; therefore *Debian isn't allowed to
redistribute 3.7 betas at all*.
(If you don't agree with my reading of "organizational unit", the rest still
stands, such that 3.7~beta on debian would have to be binary-only and
keeping the expiration code unmodified.)
As I was told in debian-legal: If the maintainer for the povray package
requested and got a written permission from Persistence of Vision Raytracer
Pty. Ltd to avoid any of the four restrictions, it has to be mentioned in
the copyright file. Otherwise, the package should be removed from Debian
until the final release of 3.7 is available under the usual terms of the
POV-Ray license.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from experimental:
povray | 1:3.7.0~beta29-1 | source, i386
povray-doc | 1:3.7.0~beta29-1 | all
povray-examples | 1:3.7.0~beta29-1 | all
povray-includes | 1:3.7.0~beta29-1 | all
------------------- Reason -------------------
3.7 unredistributable
----------------------------------------------
Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System. Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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