Your message dated Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:56:15 +0000 with message-id <e1dr4al-0007gg...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#870973: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #705152, regarding Non-free code in xgraph? [copyright.h and derivative.c for starters.] to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: xgraph Severity: serious Version: 12.1-15 Ulrich Mueller reported this to debian-le...@lists.debian.org. FWICT, at least the contents of the source package are not distributable by Debian in main. It's possible that the binary packages do not contain any work which is copyrighted by Paul Walker, but the source packages at least need to be altered to remove this non-free, non-distributable code. [If I and Ulrich Mueller has misinterpreted what is going on here, please let us know, and if at all possible, update debian/copyright to explain in some future upload so we and others don't revisit this erroneously in the future.] On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > The original tarball contains a file copyright.h, which states that > additions made by Paul Walker are non-free ("for education, academic > research and non-commercial purposes", "provided [...] that no charge > is made for such copies"). Heh. That's not going to work. If that's actually the case, this code has to be removed from the orig.tar.gz that Debian distributes. > Now the Debian changeset patches copyright.h and removes everything > but the first two paragraphs from the license, i.e. the parts > concerning the Paul Walker extensions. However, I don't see that the > corresponding code would be removed. Especially, derivative.c is still > there, which says: "This entire routine written by PW." Same for the > animation code; there are comments with a "PW" tag at several places. > > Therefore I wonder how this change to copyright.h came about, and if > this package really is Free Software? I doubt that it is, or at least, the copyright and changes aren't documented well enough for Debian to be able to properly distribute this. > [1] > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/licenses/as-is?view=markup > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452914 Don Armstrong -- Tell me something interesting about yourself. Lie if you have to. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 12.1-17+rm Dear submitter, as the package xgraph has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/870973 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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