Bug#555168: Many locales files do not permit modification
Package: locales
Version: 2.10.1-5
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1, 2.1
Many locales contain the following license:
# Distribution and use is free, also for
# commercial purposes.
This does not permit modification, and thus fails DFSG 3.
I'd guess that almost all of these come from copying a previous locale
file as the basis for a new one (ironically). I don't know the original
source.
For a full list of such files:
grep Distribution /usr/share/i18n/locales/*
It appears that more than half the locales contain this license.
A couple of files seem to contain a truncated version of the license,
namely:
$ grep 'Distribution and use is$' *
fy_DE:% Distribution and use is
li_BE:% Distribution and use is
li_NL:% Distribution and use is
nds_DE:% Distribution and use is
nds_NL:% Distribution and use is
This adds credence to the notion that this propagated by copy and paste.
The only previous mention I could find of this issue appears in the
thread starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/12/msg00915.html .
- Josh Triplett
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