Allright, so what is the procedure now to use http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html?
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: antlr > Version: 2.7.7+dfsg-5 > Severity: serious > Tags: upstream > Justification: Policy 2.3 > > The PyANTLR component – lib/python/antlr/ in the source tree – was > written by Wolfgang Häfelinger, who, according to his website, is > German. The PyANTLR component references a “LICENSE.txt” file “for > license details”, which is missing. The top-level licence file of > antlr cannot be meant by it, because German citizens cannot disclaim > copyright and let their work wilfully enter Public Domain. > > This means that PyANTLR is unlicenced proprietary software, unless > the author adds a DFSG-free licence for his code and the Debian > maintainer adds it to debian/copyright accordingly. > > I’ve added Wolfgang Häfelinger to Cc, so he can comment directly > and is notified about this issue. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh > -- Wolfgang Häfelinger häfelinger IT - Applied Software Architecture http://www.haefelinger.it +49 1520 32 52 981 (+31 648 27 61 59)
