Hi, Just got the appended bug report, what should I do about it ? Is there a way to let sox stay in main ? Is the solution to build a new .orig.tar.gz without that code in, make a new "upstream" sox with new version number ?
I wonder if the other distributions have the problematic code in there. Guenter On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Daniel Kobras wrote: > Package: sox > Version: 12.16-9 > Severity: serious > > Hi! > > Looking at sox's WAVE/ADPCM support, it appears I found a licensing > problem. Quoting wav.c: > > * Added support for Microsoft's ADPCM and IMA (or better known as > * DVI) ADPCM format for wav files. Info on these formats > * was taken from the xanim project, written by > * Mark Podlipec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For those pieces of code, > * the following copyrights notice applies: > * > * XAnim Copyright (C) 1990-1997 by Mark Podlipec. > * All rights reserved. > * > * This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed without > * fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this copyright notice is > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > * preserved intact on all copies and modified copies. > * > * There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software. > * It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all > * responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage > * or its effect upon hardware or computer systems. > > This is a violation of the DFSG, I think, and qualifies ADPCM support for > non-free. :-( It certainly clashes with the general sox license as stated > in debian/copyright: > > Copyright 1991 Lance Norskog And Sundry Contributors > This source code is freely redistributable and may be used for > any purpose. This copyright notice must be maintained. > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > Lance Norskog And Sundry Contributors are not responsible for > the consequences of using this software. > > Sorry for the nit-picking, but I fear policy's not too happy about this. > > Best regards, > > Daniel. > > -- System Information > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux antares 2.4.3 #1 SMP Fri Mar 30 11:02:46 CEST 2001 i686 > > Versions of packages sox depends on: > ii libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > >
