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Bug#211765: marked as done (xorg-server: material under GLX Public License is not DFSG-free)

Your message dated Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:14:04 +0100
with message-id <1221869644.3328.7.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk>
and subject line SGI Free B licence updated
has caused the Debian Bug report #211765,
regarding xorg-server: material under GLX Public License is not DFSG-free
to be marked as done.

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Package: xfree86
Version: 4.2.1-6
Severity: serious

The following sections of the debian/copyright file for xfree86:

  2.4  GLX Public License
  2.5  CID Font Code Public License

contain clauses which debian-legal has found to be non-free according
to the DFSG - see thread starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200309/msg00723.html

Code covered by these licenses need to be relicensed or removed from
Debian's distribution of XFree86.

The licence

  "SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENCE B"

which is found in the copyright file for version 4.2.1-11, also
contains a non-free clause (discussed in the same thread). Since only
the Debian revision differs, I suppose that whatever code that is
covered by will also be present in 4.2.1-6.

Since the BTS wants a version, I give the one curtrently in sarge
(which is where we need most urgently to keep track of
release-critical issues), but the ones in woody and sid, plus the
expermental 4.3.0 packages, all look to be affected too.

-- 
Henning Makholm                                    "*Vi vil ha wienerbrød!*"

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SGI has issued version 2.0 of the "Free B" licence, which is DFSG-free.
All works previously distributed by SGI under older versions of the
licence are also offered under this new version. Source:
<http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/september/opengl.html>

Ben.

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