Il 24/01/2013 01:53, Jakub Wilk ha scritto: > * Giulio Paci <giuliop...@gmail.com>, 2013-01-14, 02:32: >>>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sequitur-g2p/sequitur-g2p_0.0.r1668-1.dsc >>> The license has this additional clause: >>> >>> Should a provision of no. 9 and 10 of the GNU General Public License be >>> invalid or become invalid, a valid provision is deemed to have been agreed >>> upon which comes >>> closest to what the parties intended commercially. In any case >>> guarantee/warranty shall be limited to gross negligent actions or intended >>> actions or fraudulent concealment. >>> >>> Shouldn't that be "11 and 12" instead of "9 and 10"? I can't make sense of >>> it otherwise... >> >> I asked the author. He explained that the problem was their legal department >> was worried that the license terms could be changed by third party (i.e., >> FSF). > > This is trivially fixed by including the whole license text in the tarball. I > don't see how adding extra clauses could help here, even if they made sense...
I know. I also pointed it upstream. >> Our thought is that this clause is there just to say that the software is >> released under GPL-2, so the reference to 9 and 10 should be right. >> >> Unfortunately the author is not working anymore for the copyright owner, and >> he cannot change the license. I wrote to the current head of department last >> week, but I have >> not received any answer yet. >> >> Do you think the license, as it is, is acceptable? > > Well, license with clauses I can't understand is not something acceptable for > me. But you may want to ask debian-legal@ folks for their opinion. I got these replies: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/01/msg00034.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/01/msg00035.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/02/msg00007.html They all seem to indicate that the additional clause is non sense, but the license is acceptable. >>> lintian4python emits a bunch of tags: >>> >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/bin/sequitur-g2p:46 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/Evaluation.py:34 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/Minimization.py:48 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/SequenceModel.py:37 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/SequiturTool.py:41 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/g2p.py:46 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/misc.py:35 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/sequitur.py:38 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/symbols.py:41 >>> w: sequitur-g2p: inconsistent-use-of-tabs-and-spaces-in-indentation >>> usr/share/pyshared/tool.py:50 > > The patch that fixes this is huge, and clearly not maintainable. Please make > sure this problem is fixed upstream by their next release. > > Please also ask them to not include *.pyc files in the tarballs. I will do, if I will ever be able to get in contact with someone upstream. Unfortunately the original author is not working anymore for RTWH Aachen University. I wrote two times to the head of the department responsible for this software to ask about the license and to ask if there is anyone that I can contact to provide patches, but I received no answer yet. > The shebang should be fixed before the dh_pysupport call. (python-supports > looks at shebangs to generate the ${python:Depends} substvar.) Done. I also switched from dh_pysupport to dh_python2. Bests, Giulio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51102d68.7060...@gmail.com
