Bug#1135657: bmagic: DFSG Issues

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Tue Jun 16 01:44:56 BST 2026


Following up on the discussion, and in particular the points raised by
Adrian and Sam.

After further consideration, I am withdrawing my objection on point 1
(the attribution clause). The clause is structurally comparable to the
4-clause BSD advertising clause, which Debian has traditionally
accepted as DFSG-free. I was initially concerned about the practical
burden this places on Debian as a distributor, but I believe this can
be satisfied by mentioning BitMagic in the package description, which
is propagated to packages.debian.org.

That said, points 2 and 3 from my original report remain unaddressed:

2. Binary Blobs (Policy 4.16, DFSG 2)
The precompiled header file
msvc32/.vs/bm/v15/ipch/AutoPCH/60fd1a078cd898e5/PERF.ipch
is still present in the +dfsg tarball and needs to be excluded.

3. Missing Authors and Licenses in debian/copyright
The authors and licenses listed in my original report are still not
declared in debian/copyright.

Regards,
-rt



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