Bug#900598: [desmume] Include non free file

[Markus Koschany]

Hi,

Am 01.06.2018 um 21:58 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIÈS:
> Package: desmume
> Severity: serious
> 
> The following file source files include material under a non-free license from 
> Unicode Inc. Therefore, it is not possible to ship this in main or contrib.
> 
> src/utils/ConvertUTF.c
> 
> This license does not grant any permission to modify the files (thus failing 
> DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant seems to attempt to restrict use to 
> "products supporting the Unicode Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6).
> 
> In this case a solution is to use libicu and to remove this code by repacking.
> 
> If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian.
> 
> Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/823100 for details.

Indeed this is a Lintian bug. Unicode changed the license and the new
license can be found here:

http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1

Also see https://bugs.debian.org/864729 for more information. In my
opinion this is merely a documentation bug but not a Policy violation.

Regards,

Markus

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