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Bug#506977: marked as done (FPC: copyright infringement in pre 2.2.2 sources)

Your message dated Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:11:19 +0000
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and subject line Bug#506977: fixed
has caused the Debian Bug report #506977,
regarding FPC: copyright infringement in pre 2.2.2 sources
to be marked as done.

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Package: fpc
Version: 2.2.0-dfsg1-9
Version: 2.0.0-4
Severity: serious
Thanks

As can be read in the changelog of the latest version the old source of
fpc has a copyright infringment:
- Possible CodeGear Copyright infringements in the source were reworked
  using cleanroom approach.

Following the full discussion for the same issue in Ubuntu (discussed in
LP bug 275688 [1]) it looks like upstream is now positive of the
infringement. Upstream removed all old releases from their servers.
Debian should probably seek for a similar solution or relicense
(although the latter solution is said in [1] that it should probably
never be mentioned)

I know it is late for Lenny, but I think we should look into this ASAP.
I will point debian-legal to this bug as well.

Paul

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fpc/+bug/275688

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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from stable:

fp-compiler |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
   fp-docs |    2.0.0-4 | all
    fp-ide |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-base |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-db |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-fcl |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-fv |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-gfx |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-gnome1 |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-gtk |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-gtk2 |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-misc |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-net |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
fp-units-rtl |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
  fp-utils |    2.0.0-4 | amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
       fpc |    2.0.0-4 | source
  gearhead |    1.010-1 | source, amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc
gearhead-data |    1.010-1 | all
  imapcopy | 1.01+20060420-1 | source, amd64, i386, powerpc, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
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Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
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