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and subject line Closing xz-utils bugs fixed by version 4.999.9beta-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #541391,
regarding LZMA license inaccuracy
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Package: xz-utils
Version: 4.999.8beta-1
Severity: serious
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic
Hello!
It seems that the license of the package needs further examination. It
cannot be Public Domain, since it is derived from the "lzma" package. This
is supported by both http://tukaani.org/lzma/history and the file headers
for things like src/liblzma/lzma/lzma_encoder.c.
So this is not correct:
Files: src/liblzma/*
License: PD
liblzma is in the public domain.
It does appear to be LGPL, so it's not a giant issue, but this package
should be more carefully reviewed for copyright issues.
Thanks,
-Kees
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Kees Cook @debian.org
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Version: 4.999.9beta-1
I believe the listed bugs are fixed in the new xz-utils prerelease
4.999.9beta+20091002-1, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP
archive.
| xz-utils (4.999.9beta-1) experimental; urgency=low
|
| [ Jonathan Nieder ]
| * New upstream release.
| - Fix a data corruption in the compression code. (Closes: #544872)
| - xzdiff: Fix comparing two compressed files. (Closes: #540543)
| - Most of XZ Utils is now in the public domain. (Closes: #541391)
| - Add doc/history.txt to the distributed tarball. (Closes: #541540)
| * Update and clarify copyright file.
| * Drop lzma compatibility commands for now. (Closes: #542060, #540232)
| Add instructions to README.Debian for installing them locally.
[...]
| -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:44:04 -0500
Thank you for reporting them. If you have further thoughts, please let
me know, and I will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Kind regards,
Jonathan
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