Bug#893561: libtablelayout-java: license does not seem to meet the DFSG

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:28:13PM +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
>...
> The debian/copyright file states, in part:
> 
> | The source code has been modified to make the package suitable for main (see
> | license III. 4.). The package namespace has been changed from
> | info.clearthought.layout to org.debian.tablelayout.
> 
> Personally, I don't think that applying a patch that changes the namespace
> is enough to make the package suitable for Debian main.
> I mean: it's true that it is now possible to create drop-in replacements
> for the Debian package (without further changing the namespace), but it is
> still forbidden to create a modified version that changes the namespace
> back to "info.clearthought".
> 
> I think that this restriction goes beyond what is allowed by DFSG#4.
>...

In https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00142.html you 
agreed entirely that it is OK when software is made DFSG-free through
renaming to avoid trademark violations.

What difference would it make whether our users are forbidden to change
the namespace back to "info.clearthought" due to
1. trademark
2. licence
3. both

The precedent of Firefox and Thunderbird in Debian followed your advice 
that it is OK for 1., and I don't see anything in the DFSG that would 
imply that it would matter whether it is 1. or 2. or 3. that prevents 
our users from changing the namespace back to "info.clearthought".

cu
Adrian

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