Hi! I think we all remember the controversy around pornview's introduction into Debian because of it's name. It's currently in the archieves but there are reasons to believe pornview is infringing the copyright (and open source ethics) of another image viewer also in our archives. GImageView. Both softwares are GPL, the fact that Pornview uses a lot of GImageView's code verbatim or with modifications per se is not a problem, but Pornview has stripped the original copyright notices and also doing things like s/GImageView//g from variable and function names. GImageView's author's diary pages lists some of the suspicious files and changes (the page is in Japanese) http://www.homa.ne.jp/~ashie/diary/?200212b&to=200212122#200212122 According to this diary, after being confronted, the author of pornview stopped providing his development version and CVS access. We should pull pornview from the archives until a version is released that adresses this issue, either by removing the problematic code or until the proper copyright notices are restored. -- Oliver M. Bolzer oliver@gol.com GPG (PGP) Fingerprint = 621B 52F6 2AC1 36DB 8761 018F 8786 87AD EF50 D1FF
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