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Bug#1056147: midge possibly contains non-DFSG-free examples



Source: midge
Version: 0.2.41-4
Severity: serious
Justification: possible DFSG violation

	[Please do not Cc: me, as I’m “on the list,” so to say, and
	I prefer to reserve my inbox for private communication only.
	I’d have set up Mail-Followup-To:, but there doesn’t seem
	to be a way to make it point to the report being filed.]

	The source currently contains a number of covers/*.mg files
	that are, so far as I can tell, derivatives of songs for
	which there’re no indication of being out of copyright or
	ever released under a DFSG-compliant license.  In particular,
	a cursory look at Wikipedia articles (below) do not seem to
	mention anything related to possible free culture status of
	the songs transcribed in paranoid.mg & wish_you_were_here.mg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_(Black_Sabbath_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_song)

	I believe the source needs to be repackaged so to exclude
	the examples/covers/ directory entirely.

-- 
FSF associate member #7257  np. The Last Refugee — Roger Waters


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