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Re: Bug#686580: netdiag: Strobe license is incorrectly stated as GPL



On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:07:38AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> 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

Mr. Assange is the copyright holder (among a few others), but I get the
impression he's a bit busy at the moment...

> 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"...
> 
> 
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