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--- Begin Message ---Package: labplot Version: 1.5.1.6-1 Severity: minor Several clarifications seem to be needed with respect to the license seem to be needed in the copyright file. 1) First, the NetCDF license listed states: Further, UCAR requests that the user credit UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this software or in any product that includes this software. If this is read as an obligation, it would be a BSD-like advertising clause that would conflict with the GPL. However, the upstream NetCDF authors have clarified the license to read (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/copyright.html): Further, UCAR requests that the user credit UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this software or in any product that includes this software, although this is not an obligation. I would recommend updating the netCDF code (and license statement) to a recent upstream version, to remove any doubt about the GPL compatibility. 2) Second, several files do not seem to be GPL-licensed, and their legal status is unclear. audiofile/extended.c is listed as "Copyright (C) 1988-1991 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved." with no further permissions. This file looks dangerously non-free. audiofile/g711.c is "a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is provided for unrestricted use. Users may copy or modify this source code without charge." Unfortunately, this is quite a sloppy legal license, and does not explicitly grant the right to *sell* the software (required to be DFSG-free) and not just "use" it. 3) Although the copyright file lists the code as GPL version 2 only, I can find no such restriction in the source code. I can't find a single file that lists the copyright as being version 2 only...the files that mention the GPL all list the copyright as being version 2 or later. The cephes/COPYING file lists version 2 only, but that seems to have been added by the Debian maintainers, since the authors' permission email (in the debian/copyright file) does not specify a particular version. If the code is v2 or later, as opposed to v2-only, the debian/copyright file needs to say so. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.33-vpsX (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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--- Begin Message ---Source: labplot Source-Version: 1.6.0.1-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of labplot, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: labplot_1.6.0.1-1.diff.gz to pool/main/l/labplot/labplot_1.6.0.1-1.diff.gz labplot_1.6.0.1-1.dsc to pool/main/l/labplot/labplot_1.6.0.1-1.dsc labplot_1.6.0.1-1_i386.deb to pool/main/l/labplot/labplot_1.6.0.1-1_i386.deb labplot_1.6.0.1.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/l/labplot/labplot_1.6.0.1.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated labplot package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:29:56 +0100 Source: labplot Binary: labplot Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.6.0.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: labplot - data plotting and function analysis tool for KDE Closes: 313971 409551 435209 458444 Changes: labplot (1.6.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release (Closes: #458444). - Fixes mistakes in po/de.po, thanks to Jens Seidel (Closes: #313971). - Does not crash when deleting two graphs (Closes: #409551). * Rewrote debian/copyright in the machine-readable format that is outlined in http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat and clarified some license issues (Closes: #435209). * debian/patches/: - Removed build-with-gcc4.3.patch and fix-autoconf-2.6-compatibility.patch, these have been incorporated upstream. - Readded use-pkg-config-instead-of-magick-config.patch which was added in 1.5.1-1 but got lost in 1.5.1.6-1. - Added use-debians-qwtplot3d-qt3.patch to modify configure.in in order to search for qwtplot3d-qt3 (Debian's Qt 3 flavour of QwtPlot3D) instead of qwtplot3d. * debian/rules: - Explicitly passed --enable-FEATURE to configure for all features labplot should be built with. Most of these correspond to a library development package in Build-Depends. - Removed "VTK_DIR=/usr" from the configure invocation. It is useless because the build-dependency on libvtk4-dev was removed in 1.5.0.5-1. - Include debian/debiandirs (if it exists) so that $(configkde) is not empty when running configure. - Call configure with the --build and --host options as suggested in the section "Calling GNU configure properly" in autotools-dev's README.Debian. * debian/control: - Added to Build-Depends: libjasper-dev (it was implicitly pulled in by libmagick9-dev, but configure checks for it), libhdf5-serial-dev (new feature in 1.6.0), libqwtplot3d-qt3-dev and liborigin-dev (these are required so that labplot does not use the included copies of these libraries), qhull-bin (in order to prevent labplot from shipping its own /usr/bin/qdelaunay). - Added Vcs-{Git,Browser} fields to the source stanza. - Added myself to Uploaders with Helen's kind permission. Thanks! * Do not build the included libraries in liborigin-20070926 and qwtplot3d (libLabPlotorigin.so.* and libLabPlotqwtplot3d.so.*), use the system libraries provided by the liborigin-dev and libqwtplot3d-qt3 packages instead. * Removed debian/labplot.manpages and debian/opj2dat.1 because labplot does not include /usr/bin/opj2dat anymore. This binary is now provided by the opj2dat package. * debian/override: - Removed the warning "binary-without-manpage" because labplot includes a manpage for LabPlot as well as for labplot. - Removed the "package-name-doesnt-match-sonames" warnings for libLabPlotorigin0 and libLabPlotqwtplot3d0 because these libraries are not included in this package anymore. * Bumped debhelper compat level from V5 to V6 since this is the current recommended level and raised the build dependency to "debhelper (>= 6)". Files: da8127415960211873aee437eb4606bd 1117 kde optional labplot_1.6.0.1-1.dsc 50dd3033f35003d68d5a4e54336cd6c3 11903145 kde optional labplot_1.6.0.1.orig.tar.gz 7490b6a6ad4031b9c5c9f3cbbae7ea52 11467 kde optional labplot_1.6.0.1-1.diff.gz 8ea0a31ffeeee7632032329742642a15 6828726 kde optional labplot_1.6.0.1-1_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHwq5uft6HNdxCZCkRAkM8AJ9CX93YaePXEpz5lt9k1O0HcFGlXwCeOZyC 2E7TPH2bgBoNn3Dxd4CdEyQ= =GBUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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