Bug#379648: csound: There are some files with a license not DFSG compatible
close 379648 stop On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 at 19:37 +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: > Files are not there, so please, consider removing the notice from > copyright file. It does remain another strange thing, though. Now, > paying more attention to the output of grep, I see that scansyn and > scansynx files does not appear, but the notice is contained in two > other files instead: grain4.c and grain4.h. They contain both > licenses, the LGPL and the other non DFSG one (Why?) Good idea. Upstream has traditionally been sloppy with their licenses, I had to encourage them to add or change many licenses when originally packaging. I haven't looked closely yet, but I think csound5 does a better job of this. In only a couple of weeks I'll have the time to package csound5. I'm not sure if that will be in time for etch or not, but I'm crossing my fingers. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#379648: csound: There are some files with a license not DFSG compatible
On 7/25/06, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From README.Debian: The scansyn and scansynx opcodes have a license incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. They have therefore been omitted from this build of Csound. If the files sneaked back into the source tarball somehow then it was my mistake. You are right, sorry, I've made a mistake. I have checked the files in upstream source, not Debian source. Then I've executed: grep -r "research purposes" csound-4.23f13 against your Debian sources. Since grep returned some lines, I've (incorrectly) concluded that those files were also contained on Debian package. Files are not there, so please, consider removing the notice from copyright file. It does remain another strange thing, though. Now, paying more attention to the output of grep, I see that scansyn and scansynx files does not appear, but the notice is contained in two other files instead: grain4.c and grain4.h. They contain both licenses, the LGPL and the other non DFSG one (Why?) Well, I think you can downgrade severity (or close, at your option) this bug to avoid increasing the bug counter for etch release ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#379648: csound: There are some files with a license not DFSG compatible
From README.Debian: The scansyn and scansynx opcodes have a license incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. They have therefore been omitted from this build of Csound. If the files sneaked back into the source tarball somehow then it was my mistake. On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 at 20:02 +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: > Package: csound > Version: 1:4.23f13-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.2.1 > > > csound originally had a restrictive license allowing "educational and > research purposes only". Back on 2003 there was an effort to relicense > everything in csound as GNU LGPL: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/07/msg00621.html > > csound is now included in Debian main, but the copyright file in the > package does mention the old incompatible license for at least 4 source > files. > > I've verified that this notice is actually included on upstream source > files, so it appears that there are some files not licensed under LGPL, > or maybe it is just a mistake and forgot to update the notices when > relicensing. I hope it is because of the second case, but it should be > clarified anyways. > > This is the relevant excerpt of /usr/share/doc/csound/copyright: > > scansyn.c > scansyn.h > scansynx.c > scansynx.h > /* Scanned Synthesis Opcodes: >scansyn.c, scansyn.csd, scansyn.h and related files >are Copyright, 1999 by Interval Research. >Coded by Paris Smaragdis >From an algorithm by Bill Verplank, Max Mathews and Rob Shaw > >Permission to use, copy, or modify these programs and their documentation >for educational and research purposes only and without fee is hereby > [...] > -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#379648: csound: There are some files with a license not DFSG compatible
Package: csound Version: 1:4.23f13-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 csound originally had a restrictive license allowing "educational and research purposes only". Back on 2003 there was an effort to relicense everything in csound as GNU LGPL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/07/msg00621.html csound is now included in Debian main, but the copyright file in the package does mention the old incompatible license for at least 4 source files. I've verified that this notice is actually included on upstream source files, so it appears that there are some files not licensed under LGPL, or maybe it is just a mistake and forgot to update the notices when relicensing. I hope it is because of the second case, but it should be clarified anyways. This is the relevant excerpt of /usr/share/doc/csound/copyright: scansyn.c scansyn.h scansynx.c scansynx.h /* Scanned Synthesis Opcodes: scansyn.c, scansyn.csd, scansyn.h and related files are Copyright, 1999 by Interval Research. Coded by Paris Smaragdis From an algorithm by Bill Verplank, Max Mathews and Rob Shaw Permission to use, copy, or modify these programs and their documentation for educational and research purposes only and without fee is hereby [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
