[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1136361: stanzas in d/copyright are not DFSG compatible.

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Source: ghdl
X-Debbugs-Cc: dfsg-team, mechtilde at debian.org
Version: 6.0.0+dfsg2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream

Following stanzas in d/copyright are not DFSG compatible.

Files: libraries/mentor/*
Copyright: 1993 by Mentor Graphics
License: Mentor
  This source file is proprietary information of Mentor Graphics,Inc.
  It may be distributed in whole without restriction provided that
  this copyright statement is not removed from the file and that
  any derivative work contains this copyright notice.

It is explicit labeled as 'proprietary information'.
There is no explicit permission to use.
The text lacks the standard warranty and liability disclaimers
that are typical and necessary in established free software licenses.
So it is uncertainly legal. (Tentacle of Evil)

Files: libraries/synopsys/*
Copyright: 1990-1992, Synopsys, Inc.
License: synopsys
  This source file may be used and distributed without restriction
  provided that this copyright statement is not removed from the file
  and that any derivative work contains this copyright notice.

There is no explicit permission to modify, which is mentioned in DFSG #3

Following stanzas must be improved:

Files: testsuite/synth/issue1926/*ecp5pll.vhdl
        testsuite/synth/issue2334/*ecp5pll*.vhd
        testsuite/synth/issue2339/*ecp5pll.vhd
Copyright: EMARD
License: Unspecified-BSD

Files: testsuite/gna/issue283/Makefile.ghdl
        testsuite/gna/issue301/Makefile
Copyright: 2014-2015 Potential Ventures Ltd
License: BSD-3-clause-Potential-Ventures

It is enough to declare it as BSD-3-clause

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