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

[Mattias Gaertner]

Hi all,

Are the changes sufficient for Debian?

Mattias

On Mon, 29 May 2017 22:18:52 +0200
Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On 24-05-17 10:18, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > Below a mail from Paul Gevers highlighting a copyright issue of some
> > icons used in the new Lazarus RC.  
> 
> To be correct, this is not a copyright issue. And from the point of
> lazarus this is likely an acceptable license, but...
> 
> > 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?  
> 
> Any ideas on this subject? My current approach is going to be to remove
> the onlinepackagemanager from the components, but I rather don't.
> However, the license of these unidentified files is unacceptable for Debian.
> 
> Paul
> 
> > 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/onlinepackagemanager/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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