[Debichem-devel] Bug#643921: Severity of bug #643921

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:50:56PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:52:32AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 12:34 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > severity 643921 important
> > > thanks
> > 
> > How is a possible policy violation (and maybe copyright violation) not
> > serious?
> 
> As Jordan stated, the files under question are the product (redirected
> standard output) of non-free software, whose copyright statements are
> reprinted in their output as is generally customary.  I do not see that
> this is a policy and/or copyright violation.
[...]

I see two possibilities:

1. The restrictions described by these notices do not affect the
DFSG-freeness of the files, and the bug can be closed now.
(Possibly the notices should be removed to avoid confusion.)

2. These restrictions do affect the DFSG-freeness of the files,
and there is a serious bug to be fixed, probably by removing the
files.

Please explain why you think neither of these is the case.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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