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Re: bringing python-django-registration back into testing, dfsg issues

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On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 19:18, Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <
valhalla@debian.org> wrote:

> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.txt
> which, if my understanding of https://www.unicode.org/copyright.html is
> correct aren't DFSG, but could be redistributed.
>
Given they sit under Public aren't they DATA FILES and subject to
https://www.unicode.org/license.txt
That license seems very BSD 3-Clause-ish.

I suppose it comes down to what "Further specification" means. Does it mean
license.txt overrules copyright.html?

You could ask debian-legal for guidance.

Do you think it is ok to upload the package like this?
>
It's not ideal but if the result is you cannot use those confusables then
its the only way forward.


> 2) Even if the answer to 1 is yes, I can also try to package
> confusable_homoglyphs: upstream can download the files from the unicode
> consortium if they aren't available: do you think it's better to use
> that ability and package the file in contrib, or just put everything in
> non-free?
>
> Personally, the latter sounds quite easier, and I would be strongly
> tempted by it.
>
I have a similar problem with SNMP MIBs (thanks IETF). They're not even
redistributable so I have a contrib mibs-downloader package.
If the system can do it itself, that's ok but it needs to be something that
the user knows is happening. I have had issues with WordPress before where
it has links in some of the themes.

So in summary:
 * See if license.txt is the actual license and its DFSG free (I think it
could be)
* If not, I'd package the files in a separate archive

 - Craig

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> Elena ``of Valhalla''
>
> 🧛
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bringing python-django-registration back into testing, dfsg issues Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@debian.org> - 2022-09-26 11:20 +0200
  Re: bringing python-django-registration back into testing, dfsg issues Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> - 2022-09-27 00:30 +0200
    Re: bringing python-django-registration back into testing, dfsg  issues Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@debian.org> - 2022-09-30 10:50 +0200

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