Re: PB with auctex-11.54 (debian testing)

[email protected] (Frank Küster)
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter S Galbraith <[email protected]> schrieb:

> Frank Küster <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking about doing an NMU for this. But since then I have
>> discovered a more severe issue of this package:
>> 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/292322
>> 
>> The license situation is unclear, and the package might be non-free.
>
> Package: emacspeak
> Version: 17.0-1
> Severity: severity
>
> Gotta love that "Severity: severity" :-)
> People should use `M-x debian-bug' ;-)

I did. I started with "normal", saying that the download location for
the upstream tarball had changed. I switched to important when I noticed
that it said "Author: T.V. Raman", but didn't tell at that place that
also DEC and Adobe hold a Copyright, and that it later mixed up license
and Copyright statement.

Then I read the license statement and noticed that it didn't allow
modification, which is why I switched to, ähem, severious?

> At least are all the .el files under the GPL?  If not, then it's not
> even non-free, it's not distributable.

I didn't check all 156, but at least some are. Why do you think it
wouldn't be distributable without?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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