Re: [gNewSense-users] Fedora - Rejected Files - GNewSense - Few Files Non-free

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz schreef:
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:10:52 +0100
> marco oliva <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Conclusion: I found files that (in my opinion) may be non-free:
>
> Can you say why you think the licence is non-free?

gNewSense have taken a laid-back approach with regards to the original 
Artistic License ([1], [2]), but it has been deemed non-free by the FSF. 
So I think we should remove those packages and ask the copyright holders 
to consider changing the license.

Those files pdftk uses have the following statement:

 * This software is the confidential and proprietary information
 * of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information").  You
 * shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
 * it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
 * you entered into with Sun.

Looks non-free to me, especially because I can't find that license 
agreement it speaks of anywhere in the source package.

> > 1º -> http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/universe/d/d4x/
> > ( Artistic License ).
> >
> > 2º -> http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/universe/p/pdftk/
> > ( Sun Confidential Code )
> > ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236309 ) 2.1º ->
> > com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PACommand.java 2.2º ->
> > com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAContext.java 2.3º ->
> > com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAEngine.java 2.4º ->
> > com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAPencil.java 2.5º ->
> > com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAToken.java 2.6º ->
> > com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PainterException.java
> >
> > 3º -> http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/universe/r/rman/
> > ( Artistic License )
>
> And or file bugs against the correct packages.
> kk

For some reason Marco can't log in to bugs.gnewsense.org, so I'll create 
the bug reports.

[1] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00099
[2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00109