Source: midge
Version: 0.2.41-4
Severity: serious
Justification: possible DFSG violation
[Please do not Cc: me, as I’m “on the list,” so to say, and
I prefer to reserve my inbox for private communication only.
I’d have set up Mail-Followup-To:, but there doesn’t seem
to be a way to make it point to the report being filed.]
The source currently contains a number of covers/*.mg files
that are, so far as I can tell, derivatives of songs for
which there’re no indication of being out of copyright or
ever released under a DFSG-compliant license. In particular,
a cursory look at Wikipedia articles (below) do not seem to
mention anything related to possible free culture status of
the songs transcribed in paranoid.mg & wish_you_were_here.mg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_(Black_Sabbath_album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_song)
I believe the source needs to be repackaged so to exclude
the examples/covers/ directory entirely.
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FSF associate member #7257 np. The Last Refugee — Roger Waters
