"deb-ice" is a custom Debian distribution, described in [0] and available from [1]. It appears to be a preseeded Debian 4.0 i386 business card ISO built using a web-based tool called LinuxCOE[2], and the aggregator has attempted to place the entire work under a license[3] which appears to be the GPLv2 with the string "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" stripped out. This is troubling for several reasons: 0) Changing the GPL is not allowed. 1) No source code is included. 2) The following files distributed in the ISO are certainly not licensed under the (simultaneously claimed and violated!) GPL: ./pool/main/o/openssh/openssh-client-udeb_4.3p2-9_i386.udeb ./pool/main/o/openssh/openssh-server-udeb_4.3p2-9_i386.udeb ./pool/main/o/openssl/libcrypto0.9.8-udeb_0.9.8c-4_i386.udeb The aggregator needs to either immediately stop distributing this ISO or provide source code for the components that require source code and clarify that the entire work is not under a single GPL license. [0] http://icelinux.net/ [1] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=203391 [2] http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/deb-ice/DebIce_LICENSE.txt -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.org
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