[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-xregexp_3.1.1+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
Jonas Smedegaard
jonas at jones.dk
Sat Feb 4 12:32:43 GMT 2023
Quoting Yadd (2023-02-04 13:19:56)
> On 2/4/23 14:00, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry, but I don't see the license text of Unicode-Expat on the websites you mention in the comment.
> > Instead I see something like: "Modification is not permitted with respect to this document."
> > So I don't think the license of the files in tools/data/ are compatible with DFSG.
> >
> > Thorsten
>
> Hi,
>
> these files exist also in liblayout sources, example:
> https://sources.debian.org/src/liblayout/0.2.10-5/resource/Blocks.txt/?hl=4#L4
> and modified version of them are included in libreoffice (see
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Unicode+Character+Database)
>
> So if they are not free, we should drop libreoffice from Debian too.
>
> Upstream copyright isn't clear, on the given link you can find:
>
> [...]
> 3 Further specifications of rights and restrictions pertaining to the
> use of the Unicode DATA FILES and SOFTWARE can be found in the
> Unicode Data Files and Software License
> <https://www.unicode.org/license.txt>.
> [...]
>
> which points to the same text than added in node-xregexp (modified
> Expat), and
>
> [...]
> 8 Modification is not permitted with respect to this document. All
> copies of this document must be verbatim
> [...]
>
> So what can we do, consider node-xregexp as free or exclude libreoffice
> or maybe there is another solution?
Two wrongs don't make a right: This being an issue un other packages too
is not an argument that this one should be acceptable.
If the licensing is considered DFSG-free, then defend that (not here in
an email conversation discrete with ftpmaster, but) in a Comment field
in debian/copyright file, and re-upload.
If the licensing considered DFSG-nonfree, then a) for this package (if
possible) repackage to exclude the nonfree files and document why they
are excluded in debian/copyright, and b) for other packages containing
same/similar files file severe bugreports about each case.
- Jonas
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