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>>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 21:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>> > > > > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (13 Apr 2019) |
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>> > # Unmaintained. Contains vulnerable code and a large number of unsolved |
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>> > # (upstream) issues, including licensing issues that prevented Debian |
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>> > # from including it. |
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>> I suppose that is referring to Debian bug 202475? |
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>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202475#61 |
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>> If that's the case, it is their usual BS that they consider the FDL to |
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>> be a non-free license. (Basically, netcat.texi contains license texts |
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>> of the GPL and the FDL which by their very nature are "invariant".) |
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>> This is not a concern for us. The FDL is approved by the FSF as a free |
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>> documentation license, and therefore it is in our @FREE license group. |
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> Thanks for clarifying that. I have to admit I didn't really understand |
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> what they meant in that bug report. However, I suppose this doesn't |
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> invalidate the remaining points. Should I update the mask message? |
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Yes, please. |
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Ulrich |
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