Bug#750643: antlr: missing licence for PyANTLR

wolfgang haefelinger wh at haefelinger.it
Thu Jun 5 12:54:50 UTC 2014


Allright, so what is the procedure now to use
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html?


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> Source: antlr
> Version: 2.7.7+dfsg-5
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: Policy 2.3
>
> The PyANTLR component – lib/python/antlr/ in the source tree – was
> written by Wolfgang Häfelinger, who, according to his website, is
> German. The PyANTLR component references a “LICENSE.txt” file “for
> license details”, which is missing. The top-level licence file of
> antlr cannot be meant by it, because German citizens cannot disclaim
> copyright and let their work wilfully enter Public Domain.
>
> This means that PyANTLR is unlicenced proprietary software, unless
> the author adds a DFSG-free licence for his code and the Debian
> maintainer adds it to debian/copyright accordingly.
>
> I’ve added Wolfgang Häfelinger to Cc, so he can comment directly
> and is notified about this issue.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
>



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