[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus 1.8~rc1 contains non-dfsg images in component

[Abou Al Montacir]

Dear Lazarus developers,
Below a mail from Paul Gevers highlighting a copyright issue of some icons used
in the new Lazarus RC.The issue is that the Debian copyright constraints are
quite strict in the definition of free software.This prevents Debian to
distribute, in the main archive, SW that users may not be able to modify like
stated by the CC-AND license.
Can you please advise on the best solution you see to fix this either on our
side or on yours?
On Sun, 2017-05-21 at 20:33 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to package lazarus 1.8 first RC, but I found it contains
> non-dfsg images in component (CC Attribution-No Derivative 4.0):
> 
> https://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/components/onlinepackagema
> nager/images/ImageCopyright.txt?view=markup&root=lazarus&pathrev=53390
> 
> Stupid thing is, I don't know which of the images are from this icon
> set. What do you suggest we do? E.g. strip the onlinepackagemanger? Dive
> into the images (not me)? Ask upstream lazarus to use a more free icon
> set? Any other ideas?
> 
> I don't think it is sustainable to replace the icons ourselves, as that
> would mean a life-long patch that I don't think is worth it.
> 
> Paul
> 
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-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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