On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:23:50 -0200 Eriberto Mota <eriberto@debian.org> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am doing a revision over the orphaned package 'mpage' (in main tree). > > When migrating the debian/copyright file to 1.0 format, I did a full > revision in source code and I found two doubtful situations for me. > > The first issue is the license used by mpage: > > * Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim > * copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided > * that this copyright notice is preserved, and that the > * distributor grants the recipient permission for further > * redistribution as permitted by this notice. > > IMO, this license doesn't allow modify the source code. So, this > license is inadequate. > > The second issue is the license of the Contrib/mfix/test.ps file: > > % Copyright (c) 1986-89, ArborText, Inc. > % Permission to copy is granted so long as the PostScript code > % is not resold or used in a commercial product. > > In this license the rigths to resold or use in a commercial product is > denied. In this case, the solution is remove the file (not essential, > a contrib only). > > Well, I need your opinions about what to do. Should be this package > moved to non-free? Must it be removed? Am I wrong? I agree with both of your interpretations.
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