Status of bloboats

[Alexander Schmehl]

[ cc-ing the ITP, so people know that work is going on :) ]

Hi!

I just checked the copyright-file of your package, and if I understand
it corectly is (not yet) fit for an upload to main.

Citing debian/copyright:
======
 This license holds for the program itself: the source code
 and the data files except some of the sounds files.

[... usual GPL stuff...]

 Sound files are licensed under Sampling Plus 1.0 license.
 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/)
======

Without further checking those statement seems to contradict each other
"some of the soundfiles" and "Sound files" (I would read the last one as
"all sound files").  If it's just some of them, then there should be
list of which of them falls under the Sampling Plus 1.0 license.

Second point would be, that just mentioning the URL of the license is
against Policy 4.5 "Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy
of its copyright and distribution license...".

Thirst and last point (the most important one):  I think the Sampling
Plus 1.0 license is non-free; quoting the long versions § 3.b:
======
  Prohibition on advertising. All advertising and promotional uses are
  excluded from the above rights, except for advertisement and promotion
  of the Derivative Work(s) that You are creating from the Work and
  Yourself as the author thereof.
======

I think that fails §6 DFSG.

I'm not sure, §3.a ii of this license is okay for the DFSG, but tend to
think "yes".


So, I don't intend to upload this package, until this is resolved (or
someone convinces me, that this license is dfsg free).


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

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