Bug#596844: perl: Text::Tabs might have a non-DFSG-free license

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Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-14
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Text::Tabs which is shipped with both upstream perl and the Debian
version has this license, (highlight by me):

   Copyright (C) 1996-2002,2005,2006 David Muir Sharnoff.  Copyright
   (C) 2005 Aristotle Pagaltzis This module may be modified, used,
   copied, and redistributed at your own risk. __Publicly
   redistributed modified versions must use a different name__.

It seems that the license forbids any downstream patches without
changing the name, so this situation seems very similar to what Debian
has with Firefox, where the name has been changed to Iceweasel to work
around such a clause.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc1-Avar-Akbar (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-4          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.7                4.7.25-9         Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3                1.8.3-9          GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base               5.10.1-14        minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules            5.10.1-14        Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  make                          3.81-8     An utility for Directing compilati
ii  netbase                       4.42       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-perl | l <none>     (no description available)
ii  perl-doc                      5.10.1-14  Perl documentation

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