Bug#1001622: Fwd: groops_0+git20220120+ds-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>]

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Subject: groops_0+git20220120+ds-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
Date: 25.06.2022 13:00
From: Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Gürkan Myczko <tar@debian.org>

Hi,

our hardworking trainees added a note to that package:

  File source\external\nrlmsis2\alt2gph.F90

  has a non-free wording here:

    ! The MSIS Software (hereinafter Software) is property of the United 
States                                                                   
   .                                                                     
              │
    ! Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy. Methods 
performed
    ! by this software are covered by U.S. Patent Number 10,641,925. The 
Government                                                               
                                                                         
             │
    ! of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary 
of the Navy,
    ! herein grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to the 
Software for
    ! academic, non-commercial, purposes only. A user of the Software 
shall not:
    ! (i) use the Software for any non-academic, commercial purposes, 
(ii) make
    ! any modification or improvement to the Software, (iii) disseminate 
the
    ! Software or any supporting data to any other person or entity who 
will use
    ! the Software for any non-academic, commercial purposes, or (iv) 
copy the
    ! Software or any documentation related thereto except for (a) 
distribution
    ! among the users personal computer systems, archival, or emergency 
repair                                                                   
                                                e                        
               │
    ! purposes, or (b) distribution for non-commercial, academic 
purposes, without
    ! first obtaining the written consent of IP Counsel for the Naval 
Research                                                                 
                                                                         
                │
    ! Laboratory.

 There is a huge lumping together of copyright owners in d/copyright for 
stanza

  Files: *

  This is too broad. A significant part of the files are ony (C) one or 
two
  authors.

  License for source\external\iers\CNMTX.F has a controversial clause 
(see long
  thread on d.devel):

  *  4. In any published work produced by the user and which includes
  *     results achieved by using the Software, you shall acknowledge
  *     that the Software was used in obtaining those results.


In the README.md there is also a CC-ND license mentioned.

  Thorsten



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