Your message dated Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:19:42 +0200
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and subject line Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free
has caused the Debian Bug report #509287,
regarding afio: license is non-free
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Package: afio
Version: 2.5-5
Severity: serious
the license for afio is non-free. see /usr/share/doc/afio/copyright:
* ------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* License notice 1, covering part of this software package.
*
* [Covers the original 1985 afio code]
*
* Copyright (c) 1985 Lachman Associates, Inc..
*
* This software was written by Mark Brukhartz at Lachman Associates,
* Inc.. It may be distributed within the following restrictions:
* (1) It may not be sold at a profit.
* (2) This credit and notice must remain intact.
* This software may be distributed with other software by a commercial
* vendor, provided that it is included at no additional charge.
*
*
* [Note: it is believed that condition 5 of the Perl "Artistic
* License" implies the intent of restriction (1) above.]
*
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the core of the issue is condition (1), which discriminates against
fields of endeavor (DFSG #6).
in all actuality, the licensing issue looks quite complex: see blog
[1] and redhat bug [2]. note that redhat's response was to remove the
package. also, cpio supposedly provides the same functionality as
afio, so it may not even be necessary to provide this package. after
seeing the blog, the FSF declared afio non-free [3].
i'm marking this as serious for now since this is a DFSG violation,
but i can appreciate a decision to mark it lenny-ignore or to
temporarily downgrade it to important since the release is impending.
[1] http://spot.livejournal.com/303000.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037
[3] http://directory.fsf.org/project/afio
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Hi,
thank you for remembering.
I forgot to close the bug previously.
We collected many information and it comes out that the
software was intendet to be distributed freely.
Afio is free software and is still in use, no need for
removal.
Best regards,
Erik
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