On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:07 PM, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 01.06.2018 um 21:58 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIÈS: >> Package: desmume >> Severity: serious >> >> The following file source files include material under a non-free license >> from >> Unicode Inc. Therefore, it is not possible to ship this in main or contrib. >> >> src/utils/ConvertUTF.c >> >> This license does not grant any permission to modify the files (thus failing >> DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant seems to attempt to restrict use to >> "products supporting the Unicode Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6). >> >> In this case a solution is to use libicu and to remove this code by >> repacking. >> >> If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian. >> >> Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/823100 for details. > > Indeed this is a Lintian bug. Unicode changed the license and the new > license can be found here:
No it is not a lintian bug. Unicode withdraw this code before applying the license change. Exhibit 1 does not apply in this case. > > http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 > > Also see https://bugs.debian.org/864729 for more information. In my > opinion this is merely a documentation bug but not a Policy violation. > > Regards, > > Markus >