Bug#900598: [desmume] Include non free file

[Markus Koschany]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 desmume: clarify ConvertUTF license header

Am 01.06.2018 um 22:25 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:21 PM, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Am 01.06.2018 um 22:16 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES:
>> [...]
>>> No it is not a lintian bug. Unicode withdraw this code before applying
>>> the license change.
>>>
>>> Exhibit 1 does not apply in this case.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> No. This is not correct. Please read #864729 and
>>
>> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/google-breakpad/issues/detail?id=270
>>
>> why we are allowed to change the license too.
> 
> Ok see it. It is nevertheless a bug (not serious) because this code is
> buggy and supperseded by ICU. Did you report this upstream ?

No. I'm not a regular uploader of desmume, just someone who dislikes
that we remove files or entire packages because of wrong or misinformed
assumptions.

> Can you send a bug to lintian ? Will try to cook something

This issue was already reported to the Lintian developers in Debian bug
#852196 and #854209. You have even sent a comment respectively marked
those bugs as moreinfo.

In my opinion Lintian is wrong here. This should be a warning at best
because apparently it leads to confusions whether ConvertUTF.c is
licensed under a DFSG-free license or not. The discussion in #864729 is
the best summary why we can just relicense the file to the new
permissive Unicode license.

Markus

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