On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:37:32 -0400 Andres Mejia wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > we have a package in our archive with images for use with nagios, called > > nagios-images[1]. > > While reviewing the package we noticed that the copyright file[2] just > > contains copy&paste GPL2 text, but there is no indication that this is true > > for the images in the package. [...] > > Tony Yarusso [...] did ask Ethan > > about the issue. The answer was: > > > > 'Heard back from Ethan. The answer is "I have no idea". He's just decided > > it's not worth worrying about (to him), but we can't verify the source of all > > of those images.' > > > > So ... what should we do next? [...] > > [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-images.html > > [2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nagios/nagios-images/trunk/debian/copyright [...] > > Trying using 'strings' on each file and see if you can find any > copyright info. Next is to try and see if the images are hosted in > some other software/website throughout the Internet and see if any > copyright information is available from wherever you look. > > The latter option obviously will take a long time and is probably not > worth worrying about after a certain amount of time of searching. Next option would obviously be to find DFSG-free GPL'ed replacements for those images. Or maybe those GPL'ed replacements could be created on purpose. Care should be taken so that the authors of the replacements do *not* in any way derive their works from the non-free images (ideally they should start from scratch without even looking at the non-free images, they should just look at the context where the replacements will be placed, and receive a textual description of the concepts that should be graphically represented by the replacement images). I hope this helps. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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