Bug#646897: marked as done (undistributable files in qcad)
Your message dated Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:47:15 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#646897: RM: qcad, qcad-data, qcad-doc and partlibrary -- ROM contains non-free stuff
has caused the Debian Bug report #646897,
regarding undistributable files in qcad
to be marked as done.
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Apparently we have undistributable data in all qcad packages.
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Scott Howard wrote:
> > I guess, from what I have read elsewhere, that not only are these things
> > non-free, but we have no licenses whatsoever to re-distribute these
> > files. Is that correct?
>
> That is correct. When lisandro and I became involved in the LibreCAD
> fork of QCAD, I adopted QCAD to keep it alive until LibreCAD could
> supersede it.
>
> The problem is that upstream's website said GPLv2 all over the
> downloads section and included the text of GPL in the downloaded
> package. The original packagers must have assumed that everything they
> downloaded from them was GPLv2 (even partlibrary, which doesn't come
> with a license header at all). Recently the upstream author clarified
> that he himself does not have any license to partlibrary and that he
> didn't 't want the fonts and help licensed at all (all rights
> reserved). He has since rewritten the distribution/download section of
> his site to reflect that.
Thanks for the clarificaton. Files have been removed:
http://snapshot.debian.org/removal/27
http://snapshot.debian.org/removal/28
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