Package: figlet Version: 2.2.1-2; reported 2004-10-05 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Figlet is in main, but does not seem to comply with the DFSG. Moreover the copyright file seems inaccurate. Please refer to http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/09/msg00249.html and to the following thread, for further discussions. Looking at the contents of the orig.tar.gz, I found a file named "Artistic-license.txt" that contains a license similar, but not identical to /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic. I'm told that this license looks like the old Artistic license with the perl-specific parts removed. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/09/msg00320.html in the above mentioned thread. This license is problematic at best. Actually file figlet.c states that the whole package is under this `Artistic license': /**************************************************************************** FIGlet Copyright 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai FIGlet Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 John Cowan FIGlet Copyright 2002 Christiaan Keet Portions written by Paul Burton and Christiaan Keet Internet: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FIGlet, along with the various FIGlet fonts and documentation, is copyrighted under the provisions of the Artistic License (as listed in the file "Artistic-license.txt" which is included in this package. ****************************************************************************/ At the same time other files seem to state different things... See the following. Makefile: copyright notices with no permissions granted # Makefile for figlet version 2.2.1 (13 July 2002) # adapted from Makefile for figlet version 2.2 (15 Oct 1996) # Copyright 1993, 1994,1995 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai # Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 John Cowan # Copyright 2002 Christiaan Keet chkfont.c, figlist, showfigfonts: no copyright notice at all (a clarification that these files are covered by the package license would be helpful) crc.c, crc.h, inflate.c, inflate.h, zipio.c, zipio.h: non-free license /* * Copyright (c) 1995, Edward B. Hamrick * * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and * its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided * that * * (i) the above copyright notice and the text in this "C" comment block * appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and * * (ii) any modifications to this source file must be sent, via e-mail * to the copyright owner (currently [EMAIL PROTECTED]) within * 30 days of such modification. This is compelled distribution. It does not permit private modifications. It fails the Dissident Test and the Desert Island Test. Non-free. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * IN NO EVENT SHALL EDWARD B. HAMRICK BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, * INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER * RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF * THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */ figfont.txt: non-free license | Draft 2.0 Copyright 1996, 1997 | by John Cowan and Paul Burton | Portions Copyright 1991, 1993, 1994 | by Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai | May be freely copied and distributed. Where's the permission to modify? figlet.6: This file include another copyright notice that seems to cover the whole package, but the permission grant seems non-free... .\" FIGlet .\" Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai .\" Internet: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .\" Portions Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .\" Portions Copyright 2002 by Christiaan Keet .\" FIGlet, along with the various FIGlet fonts and documentation, may .\" be freely copied and distributed. It lacks permission to make modifications! Is this an inaccurate summary of the actual license? Or is this *the* license itself? .\" If you use FIGlet, please send an e-mail message to .\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .\" some font files (fonts/*.flf): very limited permission grant, non-free | Permission is hereby given to modify this font, as long as the | modifier's name is placed on a comment line. No permission to distribute... And it would be non-free even with this permission, because it requires the name of the modifier. OK, now the copyright file states: - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This is the Debian Linux prepackaged version of Figlet, a program for doing things _ _ _ _ _ _ | (_) | _____ | |_| |__ (_)___ | | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __| | | | < __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_ |_|_|_|\_\___| \__|_| |_|_|___(_) This package was originally put together by Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and the maintained Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Now it's maintained by Francesco Tapparo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.nicoh.com/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet22.tar.gz figlet (c) 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai Internet: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FIGlet Copyright 1996, 1997 John Cowan^M Portions written by Paul Burton^ figlet, along with the various figlet fonts and documentation, may be freely copied and distributed. /* * crc.c - CRC calculation routine * * Version 1.0 * * Copyright (c) 1995, Edward B. Hamrick * * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and * its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided * that * * (i) the above copyright notice and the text in this "C" comment block * appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and * * (ii) any modifications to this source file must be sent, via e-mail * to the copyright owner (currently [EMAIL PROTECTED]) within * 30 days of such modification. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * IN NO EVENT SHALL EDWARD B. HAMRICK BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, * INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER * RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF * THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */ In addition, the authors have approved the following copyright addendum, according to Robert Leslie: This program may be sold as a component of the Debian Linux distribution or a Linux distribution derived from the Debian Linux distribution. If it is distributed in binary form, the source code must be included in the distribution as well. You may wish to visit the following Figlet WWW sites: http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~chappell/figlet/ The official FIGlet web page: http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/figlet.html If you like FIGlet (hey, even if you *hate* FIGlet), please send an e-mail message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. We run an e-mail list dedicated to FIGlet software and font announcements, as well as general discussion about FIGlet. If you would like to be on this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message body subscribe figlet-l YOUR NAME where YOUR NAME should be replaced with your name. For those who don't want to be bothered with the discussions, the list can be configured so that you only see software update notices, or only software and font announcements. - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux neverland 2.4.27 #1 Mon Aug 9 23:52:28 CEST 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE= - -- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYcz/ePQnm91t/PQRAoioAJoCwYilw5NF4+7341k0aHhxP6qyawCfYnPz g5vpLsVfAVT57eE5ZsOTz30= =+mPt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
