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: 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
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