Bug#340049: antlr-2.7.5/examples/java/unicode.IDENTs/ShowString.java fails DFSG #1

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sun Nov 20 19:56:30 UTC 2005


On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:41:15PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Timo Lindfors wrote:
> [...]
> > source files
> > 
> >  antlr-2.7.5/examples/java/unicode.IDENTs/ShowString.java
> > and
> >  ./antlr-2.7.5/examples/java/unicode.IDENTs/ShowString.java
> > 
> > fail DFSG #1 because they can be distributed only for non-commercial
> > purposes:
> > 
> >  * Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> [...]
> Not good at all.  I will include patches to remove this in the next release.

Please keep in mind that non-free code should not be distributed at all in
main, including in source packages, even if it's not shipped in binary
packages.  I imagine you'll need to roll a new .orig.tar.gz for this.

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