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

[Paul Gevers]

Hm,

Disregard my comment about the outdated archive, viewvc.cgi fooled me.
If that² was the only icon, than, sure, that is sufficient for
onlinepackagemanager.

Paul
²
https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/commit/7dad2d6e38806b61ecb78acaaa082c4e3d917c5e

On 31-05-17 20:57, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Mattias,
> 
> I fail to recognize which changes you are talking about¹. Was there
> maybe a response to Abou's mail that didn't make it to the
> pkg-pascal-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org list? Is there a public archive
> somewhere where I can read back?
> 
> Paul
> ¹ the svn archive looks outdated. Has development moved to a different
> location?
> 
> On 31-05-17 16:43, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> 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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