Bug#854209: lintian: license-problem-convert-utf-code should be changed
Package: lintian
Severity: normal
The lintian message says:
"The following file source files include material under a non-free
license from Unicode Inc."
(...)
"This license does not grant any permission to modify the files (thus
failing DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant to attempt to restrict use
to "products supporting the Unicode Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6)."
"In this case a solution is to use libicu and to remove this code by
repacking."
That is true when the license is the exact one reported in bug 823100,
but...
"If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian."
Here I am :)
The code has been relicensed to a more permissive license by Unicode.
All that is required from package maintainers is to update the license
text, like in:
https://github.com/google/breakpad/commit/14bbefbd9600e08d6a34d7250faa8bc9dba2113e
See: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/google-breakpad/issues/detail?id=270#c7
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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