[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#592544: zhone: depends on libevas-svn-06-engines-x which has incompatible license (GPL + advertising clause)?

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Tue Aug 10 20:20:28 UTC 2010


Package: zhone
Version: 0-git20090610-7
Severity: serious

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1) /usr/share/doc/zhone/copyright has

This package was debianized by Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> on
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:08:17 -0300

It was downloaded from git://git.freesmartphone.org/zhone.git

The following copyrights apply to the frameworkd sourcecode:
 * Copyright © 2008 Openmoko, Inc.
 * Copyright © 2007 Johannes 'Josch' Schauer
 * Copyright © 2008 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 * Copyright © 2008 Jan 'Shoragan' LÌbbe
 * Copyright © 2008 Daniel 'Alphaone' Willmann

For the Debian packaging:
 * Copyright © 2008 Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>

The zhone source and the Debian packaging are distributed under the following
license:

        This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
        the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
        any later version.

        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
        WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
        General Public License for more details.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can
be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 file.

2) zhone depends on libevas-svn-06-engines-x

3) /usr/share/doc/libevas-svn-06-engines-x/copyright has

This package was debianized by Debian Pkg-e Team <pkg-e-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:29:10 +0000.

It was downloaded from http://download.enlightenment.org/

Upstream Authors:

        Enlightenment team <enlightenment-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>

Copyright:

        Copyright (C) 2000 Carsten Haitzler and various contributors (see AUTHORS)
    src/modules/engines/fb/evas_fb.h: Copyright (c) 1999 - Carsten Haitzler
    src/modules/engines/fb/evas_fb_main.c: Copyright (c) 1999 - Carsten Haitzler

License:

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
  to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
  the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
  and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
  Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies of the Software, its documentation and marketing & publicity
  materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation,
  materials and software packages that this Software was used.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
  THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
  IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
  CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the BSD License can be found
in `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD'.


Am I missing something here? Isn't it impossible to satisfy both the
GPL and the advertising clause at the same time?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages zhone depends on:
ii  dbus                     1.2.24-3        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevas-svn-06-engines-x 0.9.9.49898-1   Evas module providing the X11 engi
ii  python                   2.6.5-12        interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-cairo             1.8.8-1+b1      Python bindings for the Cairo vect
ii  python-dbus              0.83.1-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-ecore             0.5.0+r49824-1  Python bindings for the Enlightenm
ii  python-edbus             0.5.0+r49577-1  Python bindings for the Enlightenm
ii  python-edje              0.5.0+r49747-1  Python bindings for the Enlightenm
ii  python-evas              0.5.0+r49677-1  Python bindings for the Enlightenm
ii  zhone-illume-glue        0-git20090610-7 freesmartphone.org demo GUI - Illu

zhone recommends no packages.

zhone suggests no packages.

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