Comment 8 for bug 6792

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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:24:39 +0100
From: Andrew Saunders <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: 3270: 5250 emulation code, all rights reserved

Package: 3270
Version: all
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3

See the license terms here:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/3/3270/3270_3.3.2p1-1/copyright

The copyright holder of the 5250 emulation code appears to have
granted no permissions whatsoever; there is just the bare copyright
declaration on its own. Since copyright law works on the basis that
pretty much all rights are reserved (barring fair use etc) unless
expressly stated otherwise, the 5250 emulation code and all code that
could be considered to have been derived from it are most definitely
not legally distributable by Debian.

Similarly, the portions of code copyrighted by Georgia Tech Research
Corporation are not distributable either, since the only right
explicitly granted is that to "public use" (whatever that means).

IMO, the 3270 packages should be removed from the archive immediately.

--
Andrew Saunders