Re: Why is firebird in Debian?

[Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net>]

Anthony Towns,

MPL section 3.6 says in relevant part:
> You may distribute Covered Code in Executable form only if the
> requirements of Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 have been met
> for that Covered Code, and if You include a notice stating that the
> Source Code version of the Covered Code is available under the terms
> of this License, including a description of how and where You have
> fulfilled the obligations of Section 3.2.

IPL section 3.6 is equivalent in relevant part:
> You may distribute Covered Code in Executable form only if the
> requirements of Section 3.1-3.5 have been met
> for that Covered Code, and if You include a notice stating that the
> Source Code version of the Covered Code is available under the terms
> of this License, including a description of how and where You have
> fulfilled the obligations of Section 3.2.

I have downloaded and installed firebird2-common 1.5.3.4870-12 which
contains a copy of the IPL in /usr/share/doc/firebird2-common/copyright.

I am unable to find "a description of how and where You have fulfilled
the obligations of Section 3.2", an obligation which you seem to
imagine is fulfilled by snapshot.debian.net(fn1).

# zgrep -i snapshot.debian.net $(dpkg -L firebird2-common)
gzip: /usr/lib/firebird2/firebird.log.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: /usr/lib/firebird2/help.gz: No such file or directory
#

It appears that You are distributing firebird2-common in violation
of IPL section 3.6, and therefore in violation of copyright law in
many jurisdictions.

Did I miss something?

--Mike Bird

(fn1) For a more rigorous approach, consider a version for which the
      source is either not available or available only from snapshot.