[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#497115: Bug#497115: gpsdrive: possibly non-free file scripts/gpsfetchmap.pl

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:00:51PM +0200, Andreas Putzo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sep 01  11:47, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Andreas Putzo wrote:
> > > This restriction is clearly not dfsg free and for that reason i removed
> > > the file from the upstream tarball.
> > > 
> > 
> > I would add a reference for downloading the script in the README.Debian
> > file too, to avoid users would be confused. But for that, that script
> > violates clearly GPL and I would report upstream to solve the issue.
> 
> That issue got sorted out with upstream some time ago and the script
> is now GPL-2 licensed. The updated script gets installed and the non-free
> one was only available in the source package. I don't think we need to
> provide a URL to the old script beacuse the only difference is the
> license change which is documented in debian/copyright.
> 

Ah, thanks for the clarification, I missed all the rest of the story...

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Francesco P. Lovergine