On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:59:17PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >>>>> Matthaeus Wander <mwander@swznet.de> writes: > > > Package: netdiag > > Version: 1.0-13 > > Severity: minor > > AIUI, the Strobe license (as quoted below) fails to meet DFSG 1. > Therefore, my guess is that the severity of this bug has to be > raised to ‘grave’. (Which I'll do unless there be objections.) > > TIA. > > > In doc/netdiag/copyright the license of strobe is stated as GPL and > > claimed to be taken from strobe-1.06.tar.gz. The upstream archive > > does not mention GPL, instead the manpage and the COPYRIGHT file say: > > > --copy-- > > Copyright (c) Julian Assange 1995-1999, All rights reserved. > > > This software has only three copyright restrictions. Firstly, this > > copyright notice must remain intact and unmodified. Secondly, the > > Author, Julian Assange, must be appropriately and prominantly > > credited in any documentation associated with any derived work. > > Thirdly unless otherwise negotiated with the author, you may not > > sell this program commercially, reasonable distribution costs > > excepted. > > > Use and or distribution of this software implies acceptance of the > > above. > > --paste-- This looks very much non-free and should be moved to non-free immediately, or removed from the archive. Cranking up severity is a *good* move, I would do it, but I see you intend to. Godspeed. -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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