Bug#1010998: simh: Upstream license change conflicts with DFSG

[Paul Wise]

Control: forwarded -1 https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/new_license/91108560
Control: notfound -1 3.8.1-6.1
Control: found -1 3.8.12-1

On Sat, 14 May 2022 17:27:33 -0400 Joan Touzet wrote:

> Package: simh
> Version: 3.8.1-6.1
...
> Upstream has added licensing information that is both inaccurate as well as 
> now
> violates the terms of the DFSG.

The change isn't present in the version in Debian, fixing the versions.

https://github.com/simh/simh/commits/master/LICENSE.txt
https://github.com/simh/simh/tags

Debian doesn't even appear to use the GitHub version of simh:

https://sources.debian.org/src/simh/3.8.1-6.1/debian/watch/
https://sources.debian.org/src/simh/3.8.1-6.1/debian/copyright/

> If this package is to remain in debian, it will need to move to the non-free
> section.

Or just not get updated or switch to a fork of simh that was made from
the commit just before the license change.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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Bug#1010998: simh: Upstream license change conflicts with DFSG

[Joan Touzet]

As an alternative, Bob Supnik's "classic" version continues to release - 
version 2.12-2 just released 25 April 2022 - and would be an excellent 
replacement. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/


Unfortunately, that version still must overcome the licensing issues 
outlined in Debian bug #824883.

Bug#1010998: simh: Upstream license change conflicts with DFSG

[Joan Touzet]

Package: simh
Version: 3.8.1-6.1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 2.1

Dear Maintainer,

Upstream has added licensing information that is both inaccurate as well as now
violates the terms of the DFSG.

Specifically: 

https://github.com/simh/simh/commit/ce2adce632e1a22e6d76d4bf726d6b863373c550

> Additionally, the following restrictions on the use of this software apply.
> 
> Any use of this codebase that changes the code to influence the behavior of 
> the disk access activities is free to do that as long as anyone doing this 
> is explicitly not licensed to any subsequent changes to any part of the
> codebase made by Mark Pizzolato after that functionality was implemented by 
> Mark Pizzolato.  Changes that qualify for this restriction at least include: 
> changing the behavior or default of SET AUTOSIZE/NOAUTOSIZE, or any code 
> in sim_disk.c or any simulator components that use the sim_disk routines.
> 
> All changes to the codebase made after the inclusion of this LICENSE.txt 
> file in the github simh repository.

Discussion:

https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/new_license/91108560

If this package is to remain in debian, it will need to move to the non-free
section.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages simh depends on:
ii  libc6   2.31-13+deb11u3
ii  libpcap0.8  1.10.0-2

simh recommends no packages.

simh suggests no packages.