Dear FTP-masters, Please have a look at bug 506977 (of which the last and most explaining comment is below this email). The issue involved is a copyright infringement in the source of fpc before version 2.2.2 (i.e. everything version except for the one in unstable). I fear that we should either update or remove the sources of fpc on all but unstable releases.
In Ubuntu I checked that the following packages builddepend on FPC: lazarus imapcopy hedgewars libhdate gearhead m-tx python-soappy poker-network I assume, but have not check yet, that the same goes for Debian. With kind regards, Paul Marco van de Voort wrote: > Hello, > > Note: I'm the FPC core developer that also features in the Ubuntu > correspondence. Carlos (the maintainer of this port) can confirm that, or > have a look here: http://www.freepascal.org/aboutus.var > > The probable infringement was brought to our attention in early 2007. > The infringement was made amenable mostly due to trivial means (variable > names, fairly small procedures that were the same). > > The other side was really cooperative, and gave us time to clean up > massively, without having to immediately pull all sources, and we employed > at tool to identify potential problem sources, and found a lot more. > > So we cut real wide, and reengineered all potentially infringing code. (all > in all a nontrivial amount). > > However because the infringement was so trivial, and relicensing > counterproductive and confusion, it was decided to pull all releases. > > So in august, after 2.2.2 came out, we removed all older releases from our > site, and assumed the mentioning of the copyright problems in our release > manifest would be enough to warrant a swift upgrade. > > I hope it need no explanation that that was a pretty painful step, removing > 10 years of history of our project. > > However, here we are now, 3-4 months after the release and the heads up, and > the infringing code is still served from Debian servers. We are not happy > with this. Note that it is also not fair to the other party who has been > patient, and now could see the code still floating around. > > In short: please remove the old versions as soon as possible, or upgrade. > > Marco. > > > >
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