Bug#869180: src:hydrogen-drumkits: source contains unlicensed material (bogusly treated as GPL-2)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: retitle -1 src:hydrogen-drumkits: Some sources lack licensing

Quoting James Cowgill (2017-07-21 11:56:15)
> On 21/07/17 10:49, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Package: src:hydrogen-drumkits
> > Version: 2015.09.28-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 2.2.1
> > 
> > These drumkits are in upstream metadata listed _without_ license:
> > 
> > ColomboAcousticDrumkit (sf)
> > EasternHop (sf)
> > Electric Empire (sf)
> > HardElectro (sf)
> > HipHop-1 (sf)
> > HipHop-2 (sf)
> > Millo's MultiLayered 2 (sf)
> > Synthie-1 (sf)
> > VariBreaks (sf)
> > 
> > In Debian copyright file those are listed as licensed GPL-2.
> 
> The fact that the metadata doesn't contain a license, does not imply 
> that these files are not GPL-2. Have you actually checked the license 
> of any of these?

The issue here is that information about licensing is unavailable in the 
source package.  Title now rephrased to not avoid assumption.

If licensing is based on external information and/or guesswork, then 
that should be documented in debian/copyright.


> For instance, a brief google search seems to indicate that the first one
> on your list (ColomboAcousticDrumkit) is GPL-2 licensed:
> http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Percussion/acoustic-drum-kit.html

Thanks for the valuable info - now added to debian/copyright.

Do you have similar info for the other sources?


 - Jonas

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