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is not GPL
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regarding gnuplot: license violation
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Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-5
Severity: normal
Hello,
I read the gnuplot license:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnuplot/gnuplot_4.0.0-5/gnuplot.copyright
It is a non-common license. I noticied a conflictive clausule:
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* 3. provide your name and address as the primary contact for the
* support of your modified version, and
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(other clausules should fit in DFSG)
I commented the license in this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/12/msg00205.html
and specially, we talked about point 3:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/12/msg00209.html
Executing gnuplot, the primary contact is not the Debian maintainer mail
and so on, is gnuplot upstream. Should be the debian maintainer (but
remember to keep the original upstream as secondary contract, point 4 of
gnuplot license).
As I am not used to read licenses, maybe I missunderstood something,
feel free to correct me :-)
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Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii gnuplot-nox 4.0.0-5 A command-line driven interactive
ii gnuplot-x11 4.0.0-5 X11-terminal driver for gnuplot
gnuplot recommends no packages.
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Re: Andrzej Novak 2008-07-21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm not terribly familiar with debian-legal (so I don't know if this had been
> discussed before or not), but gnuplot is still DFSG-free, per #4:
>
> > 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
> >
> > The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in
> > modified form _only_ if the license allows the distribution of "patch
> > files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at
> > build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software
> > built from modified source code. The license may require derived works
> > to carry a different name or version number from the original
> > software. (This is a compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors
> > not to restrict any files, source or binary, from being modified.)
>
> And the copyright license for gnuplot does allow you to distribute the
> modified version provided that you:
>
> > 1. distribute the corresponding source modifications from the
> > released version in the form of a patch file along with the binaries,
>
> So it does qualify to be in Debian free, even though it IS
> GPL-incompatible (e.g. it may not be distributed in binary form with the
> GNU readline library linked to it), because of that additional restriction.
Agreed. I'll close this bug as there is no problem.
Christoph
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