Package: pdl
Version: 1:2.4.7+dfsg-2
X-Debbugs-CC: per...@jach.hawaii.edu
There're a few PDL manual pages that bear copyright notices (see
below) that, to my understanding, limit the user's freedom to
distribute the derived works. Specifically, these notices
conflict DFSG [1] in that they either:
• disallow “modifications and derived works” (by the means of
format conversion) “to be distributed under the same terms as
the license of the original software” (DFSG #3; should we
assume that the license allows commercial distribution of the
unaltered documentation);
• restrict a “party from selling or giving away the software as
a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
programs from several different sources” (DFSG #1; should we
assume that the commercial distribution is denied altogether.)
I thus believe that the distribution terms of the manual pages
in question should either be changed or clarified, or the manual
pages should be removed from the Debian package.
[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
$ (for i in PDL::Objects PDL::QuickStart PDL::BadValues ; do \
printf '* %s\n' "$i" && man "$i" | grep -A2 -B4 -F Commercial ; \
done)
* PDL::Objects
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) Karl Glazebrook (k...@aaoepp.aao.gov.au), Tuomas J. Lukka,
(lu...@husc.harvard.edu) and Christian Soeller
(c.soel...@auckland.ac.nz) 2000. Commercial reproduction of this
documentation in a different format is forbidden.
* PDL::QuickStart
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) Karl Glazebrook (k...@aaoepp.aao.gov.au), Tuomas J. Lukka,
(lu...@husc.harvard.edu) and Christian Soeller
(c.soel...@auckland.ac.nz) 1997. Commercial reproduction of this
documentation in a different format is forbidden.
* PDL::BadValues
Copyright (C) Doug Burke (djbu...@cpan.org), 2000, 2006.
The per-piddle bad value support is by Heiko Klein (2006).
Commercial reproduction of this documentation in a different format is
forbidden.
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