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Package: mplayer
Version: 1.0~rc1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Hi!
First of all, many thanks for the hard work that was necessary to get
MPlayer into Debian! :-)
There seems to be still a licensing issue, though... :-(
According to its debian/copyright[1], mplayer includes a file named
mmx.h, whose licensing status is:
| File: mmx.h
| Copyright: 1997-99 by H. Dietz and R. Fisher
| License:
| THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY
| EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
| LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
| AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Well, this is a disclaimer of warranty, not a license.
Where's the permission to redistribute (DFSG#1)?
Where's the permission to modify (DFSG#3)?
Assuming the one quoted above is the whole "license" for the file,
mmx.h does *not* comply with the DFSG and is *not* even distributable!
The legal status of this file should be clarified, in order to get
it under a DFSG-free license.
BTW, there's another issue: the debian/copyright[1] file states:
| Name: GSM 06.10 library
| Version: patchlevel 10
| Homepage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html
| Copyright 1992 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet
Berlin
| Directory: libmpcodecs/native/
| License:
| Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is
| not removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische
| Universitaet Berlin are deemed to have made any representations as to
| the suitability of this software for any purpose nor are held
| responsible for any defects of this software. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO
| WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE.
| As a matter of courtesy, the authors request to be informed about
| uses this software has found, about bugs in this software, and about
| any improvements that may be of general interest.
The term "use" is vague and could be interpreted in a strict sense
as meaning only "to run" or "to execute" the library.
This license should be clarified: persuading upstream to change
the first line in
] Any reproduction and use of this software, with or without modification,
] is permitted provided that this notice is
would suffice to make it unambiguously DFSG-free.
[1]
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-1/mplayer.copyright
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Version: 1.0~rc2-4
the file mmx.h was substituted
a.
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