On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > Control: tags -1 -wheezy-ignore > > On 2014-11-27 23:23, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Niels Thykier (2014-11-27 22:14:25) >>> [...] >> >> In prior similar bugreport <https://bugs.debian.org/760171#10> - >> referenced from <https://bugs.debian.org/771191#10> - distribution is >> documented as permitted only "for research and education" which I >> interpret as unacceptable for Debian. >> >> [...] >> >> - Jonas >>
FTR, this whole business feel incredibly silly. lena.pnm has become the *de-facto* standard image for every CS student to do his graphics courses homework on, and is generally considered to public domain, even without proper documentation. The copyright holder is going to have a very hard time enforcing his right if he wanted to prevent distribution of the image, in particular the low-quality scan that is being used in the Libav source package. Also, even according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lenna.png#Licensing, the holder is not interested in that to begin with. - I mean, really, don't we have more important things to do? Nevertheless, lena.pnm lacks proper licensing and some argue it violates the DFSG, so I've taken the effort (and ridicule!) to replace lena.pnm upstream with a new image reference.pnm, which I have personally taken this summer and upon Jonas' suggestion provide it under the expat license. This required to update all test reference patterns, which took most of the effort and is basically not verifiable. Jonas, would you mind taking over from here and upload https://libav.org/releases/libav-11.1.tar.xz to unstable? Otherwise I can see if I can get to that this weekend. Regarding stable: I've backported this change back to release/0.8 upstream. In the past, the security team has accepted libav point releases in wheezy-security, and I trust that this is also an acceptable change. It will be part of the next upload to stable-security. (this may take some more weeks, as libav has been notified about a couple of more CVEs, which need to be tested, fixed and verified, which is incredibly laborsome to do correctly). Does this plan work for everyone? -- regards, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAJ0cceY8c9rp3jO+=mkp8ctjcdj7d9yxgnewhhrfm0ntbka...@mail.gmail.com
