On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:19:51 -0400, Stephen van Egmond wrote:
> On a practical level this issue is a colossal waste of time. We have
> established:
debian isn't solely guided by practicality, but instead by more
fundamentally interesting principles.
> 1) The package is useful
> 2) The identity o
On a practical level this issue is a colossal waste of time. We have
established:
1) The package is useful
2) The identity of the copyright holder is ambiguous, even to themselves
3) The probability of action to enforce a license violation claim is basically
nil
Removing the package from distri
reopen 509287
thanks
> I forgot to close the bug previously.
>
> We collected many information and it comes out that the
> software was intendet to be distributed freely.
intention is not sufficient. the license itself as written must be
interpretable as dfsg-free. i think the package needs to
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Hi Marc,
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt :
> severity 509287 serious
> tags 509287 + lenny-ignore
> thanks
>
> Erik Schanze writes:
> > severity 509287 important
> > thanks
> >
> > "Michael Gilbert" :
> >> the license for afio is non-free. see
> >> /usr/share/doc/afio/copyright:
> >>
> >> i'm marking thi
Dear All,
As the afio upstream maintainer I am currently working off-list with some
people to clarify the background the afio license text, how and when it got
updated and interpreted, and what were the historical intentions of the authors
involved. We are making some progress.
I expect that
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Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free
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Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free
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severity 509287 important
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Hi Michael,
"Michael Gilbert" :
> Package: afio
> Version: 2.5-5
> Severity: serious
>
> the license for afio is non-free. see /usr/share/doc/afio/copyright:
> i'm marking this as serious for now since this is a DFSG violation,
> but i can appreciate a decision
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Hi all,
Few comments below...
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:00:16 +0100 Erik Schanze wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems.
> > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287.
> >
> > There was already a similar Bug
Erik Schanze wrote:
> What should I do?
> Have I move afio to non-free?
Thank you for bringing this question to the list - I was going to do
so, but had not found time yet.
More seriously, the Lachman Associates licence doesn't give any
permission to modify the software, does it?
So, I feel we
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:00:16 +0100 Erik Schanze wrote:
[...]
> I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems.
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287.
>
> There was already a similar Bug 9 years ago that was closed, after one
> person from this list gave his OK.
> (http://lis
* Erik Schanze:
> There is an ongoing discussion on a Redhat list
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037 and they excluded
> the package already. There is an other blog on
> http://www.kernelplanet.org/fedora/ that gave a summary of the current
> situation.
I think the analysis
Dear debian-legal folks,
I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems.
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287.
There was already a similar Bug 9 years ago that was closed, after one
person from this list gave his OK.
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/05/msg00162.html
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
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