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Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion

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Hi!

On 2020-11-18 22:45, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:04:22PM +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> But vrms lists fonts-ubuntu as non-free also on Ubuntu systems.
> 
> I don't understand why this happens: if it were shipped in
> multiverse or restricted, I'd understand, but AIUI fonts-ubuntu is
> part of ubuntu's main section, which should be detected as free by
> vrms...

Right, it's in main in Ubuntu, but I think the meaning of main differs 
between Debian and Ubuntu. "main" in Ubuntu means that it's a package 
where Canonical takes responsibility for security updates, as opposed to 
"universe" which is a community concern.

I think the explanation can be found in d/control of fonts-ubuntu:

https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fonts-ubuntu/control-0.83-4

It says "Section: non-free/fonts" also in the Ubuntu archive. And that's 
probably the reason why the adjustment I propose in the merge request 
makes a difference.

> IOW: I don't see how vrms's code (or data) implements the above
> position of Debian. Which leads me to another question, though
> probably rather unrelated to this bug: where did you hear/read about
> this being the Debian position? :)

In d/copyright of fonts-ubuntu:

https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fonts-ubuntu/copyright-0.83-4

> All that said,, in a later follow up to the bug report you wrote:
> 
>> The idea is to apply the suggested exception at build time, but
>> only when building for Ubuntu. On Debian it would keep working as
>> it currently does.
> 
> I'd probably take a patch which implements this.

Crossing my fingers. :)

On 2020-11-18 22:47, Holger Levsen wrote:
> I'd appreciate if you could paste the output from running vrms to
> this bug as well as the output of
> 
> $ find /etc/apt/sources.list* -type f |xargs cat

Please find two attachments with that info.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

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Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-17 19:10 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-18 01:50 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 22:50 +0100
    Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-18 23:40 +0100
      Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 23:50 +0100
        Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-19 00:30 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 23:00 +0100

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