On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:12:40 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:59:17PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > >>>>> Matthaeus Wander <mwander@swznet.de> writes: [...] > > > > 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.) [...] > > > --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. I agree. In the meanwhile, I recommend getting in touch with the copyright holder and trying to persuade him to re-license Strobe under DFSG-free terms (for instance under the terms of the GNU GPL v2, if a copyleft license is preferred, or under the terms of the Expat license http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt , if a non-copyleft license is preferred). > > Cranking up severity is a *good* move, I would do it, but I see you > intend to. I think the correct severity is "serious"... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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