gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement

Mathieu Malaterre — 2012-05-21T12:35:42

Hi,

  I recently received a report that jai-* packages may not be
compatible with debian non-free. Specifically I am looking at
jai-core's MEDIALIB FOR JAI/SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSE TERMS section 2:

...
2. License to Distribute Software.  In addition to the license granted
in Section 1 (Software Internal Use and Development License Grant) of
these Supplemental Terms, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, including but not limited to, Section 3 (Java Technology
Restrictions) of these Supplemental Terms, Sun grants you a
non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to reproduce and
distribute the Software in binary code form only, provided that you (i)
distribute the Software complete and unmodified and only bundled as part
of your Programs, (ii) do not distribute additional software intended to
replace any component(s) of the Software, (iii) do not remove or alter
any proprietary legends or notices contained in the Software, (iv) only
distribute the Software subject to a license agreement that protects
Sun's interests consistent with the terms contained in this Agreement,
(v) agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against
any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses
(including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim,
lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use
or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software, and (vi) bundle
the Software with the implementation of the Java Advanced Imaging and
the JAI Image I/O Open Source Project.
...

The issue here would be that the jai-* packages are libraries, and as
such not distributed "bundled as part of your Programs". Could we
consider that packages for debian (as as OS) are 'Programs' ?

ref:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/j/jai-core/current/copyright

Thanks very much,
-M

Figlet relicensed from AFL to BSD-3

Jonathan McCrohan — 2012-05-14T08:37:41

[Originally sent yesterday, but silently dropped due to over-size.
Resending modified version now.]

Hi -legal,

I am currently working on an updated figlet package (which currently in
non-free see #274950 and [1]).

During my work I discovered that the 2.2.3 release [2] re-licensed the
package as BSD-3 clause. This was agreed with the authors on the figlet
mailing list [3].

The main changes are in the LICENCE [4] file, and the copyright header
in figlet.c [5]. I have asked for clarification from the current
upstream figlet maintainer, and and received confirmation that the main
package along with the 'ours' fonts are all BSD-3 licensed [6].

To me, this means that the main figlet package is now DFSG-compliant.
Would someone else be able to confirm for me that this package is ok to
move back from non-free to main?

Note: I am only concerned about the core package at the moment. (Though
I may be back to discuss a possible figlet-contrib-fonts package at a
later date.)

Thanks,
Jon

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/10/msg00232.html
[2] ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet-2.2.3.tar.gz
[3] http://www.plig.net/mailman/private/figlet/2011-January/000216.html

[4]
jmccrohan< at >lambda:~/src/pkg-figlet$ cat LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 John Cowan
Copyright (C) 2002 Christiaan Keet
Copyright (C) 2011 Claudio Matsuoka
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of their
   contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
   from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS
OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

[5]
jmccrohan< at >lambda:~/src/pkg-figlet$ head -12 figlet.c
/****************************************************************************

  FIGlet Copyright 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai
  FIGlet Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 John Cowan
  FIGlet Copyright 2002 Christiaan Keet
  FIGlet Copyright 2011 Claudio Matsuoka
  Portions written by Paul Burton and Christiaan Keet
  Internet: <info< at >figlet.org>
  FIGlet, along with the various FIGlet fonts and documentation, is
    copyrighted under the provisions of the New BSD License (3-clause)
    (as listed in the file "LICENSE" which is included in this package)
****************************************************************************/

[6] http://www.plig.net/mailman/private/figlet/2012-May/000274.html

Intellectual disobedience

Paul Wise — 2012-05-13T02:36:02

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/05/12/intellectual-disobedience/
http://www.youtube.com/?v=dfGWQnj6RNA

Possible compatibility issue custom license versus GPL(2) in cacti

Paul Gevers — 2012-05-12T09:19:51

Hi,

While working on the package cacti, I came across some files included in
that project where I am unsure of the distributability or compatibility
of the code, since the cacti project itself is under the GPL2 license.

The files in question are in the include/treeview folder which can be
viewed on-line at [1], i.e. ftiens4.js and ftiens4_export.js. As the
license for these files is not included in the project, but a link is
provided in the headers for these files, I took a look at the web-site
of the treeview project [2], where a link can be found to what I believe
are the two possible licenses for this source. I have copied the
Distributor's license below this e-mail. The part I am worried about is
this:
"""
    You are not authorized to download and/or use the TreeView source
code from this application for your own purposes.
"""

Could you please help me identifying if/what actions need to be taken?
If this license is incompatible with GPL2 I expect that I should at
least contact upstream about this license violation.

Paul

[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cacti/cacti.git;a=tree;f=include/treeview
[2] http://www.treeview.net/
[3] http://www.treeview.net/tv/license.asp


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zlib specification license

Simon Josefsson — 2012-05-10T09:26:21

Hi,

Has this license been evaluated before?  RFC 1950-1952 contains:

   Copyright (c) 1996 L. Peter Deutsch and Jean-Loup Gailly

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document for any
   purpose and without charge, including translations into other
   languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the
   copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any
   substantive changes or deletions from the original are clearly
   marked.

   A pointer to the latest version of this and related documentation in
   HTML format can be found at the URL
   <ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html>.

The license initially doesn't give permissions to make modifications,
although it later require that any changes are clearly marked, which I
guess can be seen as the intention is to allow modifications.

Is the license DFSG-free?

/Simon

National Land Survey open data licence - version 1.0 - 1 May 2012

Timo Juhani Lindfors — 2012-05-10T09:27:41

Hello,

I realize that -legal is mainly for getting advice on what can be
included in Debian. However, if somebody has extra time I'd like to get
a second opinion on the license that the National Land Survey of Finland
is using for the dataset that they recently made public. This data might
get imported to OSM soon so eventually it might reach Debian in some
form (as an example map for a car navigation program for example). I
personally find the last bullet point of section 2.2 non-free. Can you
find anything else that is problematic?

Full license from
http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/NLS_open_data_licence_version1_20120501
follows:





       National Land Survey open data licence - version 1.0 - 1 May 2012

1. General information

The National Land Survey of Finland (hereinafter the Licensor), as the holder of
the immaterial rights to the data, has granted on the terms mentioned below the
right to use a copy (hereinafter data or dataset(s)) of the data (or a part of
it).

The Licensee is a natural or legal person who makes use of the data covered by
this licence. The Licensee accepts the terms of this licence by receiving the
dataset(s) covered by the licence.

This Licence agreement does not create a co-operation or business relationship
between the Licensee and the Licensor.

2. Terms of the licence

  2.1. Right of use

This licence grants a worldwide, free of charge and irrevocable parallel right
of use to open data. According to the terms of the licence, data received by the
Licensee can be freely:

  * copied, distributed and published,
  * modified and utilised commercially and non-commercially,
  * inserted into other products and
  * used as a part of a software application or service.

  2.2. Duties and responsibilities of the Licensee

Through reasonable means suitable to the distribution medium or method which is
used in conjunction with a product containing data or a service utilising data
covered by this licence or while distributing data, the Licensee shall:

  * mention the name of the Licensor, the name of the dataset(s) and the time
    when the National Land Survey has delivered the dataset(s) (e.g.: contains
    data from the National Land Survey of Finland Topographic Database 06/2012)
  * provide a copy of this licence or a link to it, as well as
  * require third parties to provide the same information when granting rights
    to copies of dataset(s) or products and services containing such data and
  * remove the name of the Licensor from the product or service, if required to
    do so by the Licensor.

The terms of this licence do not allow the Licensee to state in conjunction with
the use of dataset(s) that the Licensor supports or recommends such use.

  2.3. Duties and responsibilities of the Licensor

The Licensor shall ensure that

  * the Licensor has the right to grant rights to the dataset(s) in accordance
    with this licence.

The data has been licensed "as is" and the Licensor

  * shall not be held responsible for any errors or omissions in the data,
    disclaims any warranty for the validity or up to date status of the data and
    shall be free from liability for direct or consequential damages arising
    from the use of data provided by the Licensor,
  * and is not obligated to ensure the continuous availability of the data, nor
    to announce in advance the interruption or cessation of availability, and
    the Licensor shall be free from liability for direct or consequential
    damages arising from any such interruption or cessation.

3. Jurisdiction

Finnish law shall apply to this licence.

4. Changes to this licence

The Licensor may at any time change the terms of the licence or apply a
different licence to the data. The terms of this licence shall, however, still
apply to such data that has been received prior to the change of the terms of
the licence or the licence itself.

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filebench: bison generated parser + CDDL

Martin Steigerwald — 2012-05-07T10:46:41

Also sent to ITP bug for documentation.


Hi!

Alex and I almost finished packaging filebench:

VCS is at:

Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/filebench.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/filebench.git;a=summary

There is some licensing questions left:

1) Most files use:

 * CDDL HEADER START
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
 * Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").
 * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *
 * You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
 * or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions
 * and limitations under the License.
 *
 * When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
 * file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
 * If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
 * fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
 * information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
 *
 * CDDL HEADER END

template header.

Is it safe to assume that this refers to CDDL-1.0 as in:

http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0

Well

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Main/licensing/cddllicense.txt

refers to that version of the license as well. So that seems to be the case.

Except for this notice:

NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 9 OF THE COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
LICENSE (CDDL)

The OpenSolaris code released under the CDDL shall be governed by the laws
of the State of California (excluding conflict-of-law provisions). Any
litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the jurisdiction of
the Federal Courts of the Northern District of California and the state
courts of the State of California, with venue lying in Santa Clara County,
California.


2) It uses a bison generated parser from parser_gram.y and these generated 
files are:

Files: parser_gram.c parser_gram.h
Copyright: 1984, 1989, 1990, 2000-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  C LALR(1) parser skeleton written by Richard Stallman, by
  simplifying the original so-called "semantic" parser.
License: GPL-3+ with exception
 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
[…]
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License version 3 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3".
 .
 As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains
 part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work
 under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a
 parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof
 as a parser skeleton.  Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute
 the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this
 special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting
 Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public
 License without this special exception.
 .
 This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation in
 version 2.2 of Bison.


Is this compatible with CDDL-1?

As far as I understand CDDL-1 and GPL are not compatible, but when I read this 
special exception correctly, in the case that no new parser generator is done 
any terms, any license can be used for the resulting work.

Would it make sense to include an URL to the license in the copyright file? I 
did not see an extra field in the machine readable file format description, but 
I could always include it at the end of the license text if thats wanted.

Thanks,

filebench: bison generated parser + CDDL

Martin Steigerwald — 2012-05-07T10:43:01

Hi!

Alex and I almost finished packaging filebench:

VCS is at:

Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/filebench.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/filebench.git;a=summary

There is some licensing questions left:

1) Most files use:

 * CDDL HEADER START
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
 * Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").
 * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *
 * You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
 * or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions
 * and limitations under the License.
 *
 * When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
 * file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
 * If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
 * fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
 * information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
 *
 * CDDL HEADER END

template header.

Is it safe to assume that this refers to CDDL-1.0 as in:

http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0

Well

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Main/licensing/cddllicense.txt

refers to that version of the license as well. So that seems to be the case.

Except for this notice:

NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 9 OF THE COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
LICENSE (CDDL)

The OpenSolaris code released under the CDDL shall be governed by the laws
of the State of California (excluding conflict-of-law provisions). Any
litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the jurisdiction of
the Federal Courts of the Northern District of California and the state
courts of the State of California, with venue lying in Santa Clara County,
California.


2) It uses a bison generated parser from parser_gram.y and these generated 
files are:

Files: parser_gram.c parser_gram.h
Copyright: 1984, 1989, 1990, 2000-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  C LALR(1) parser skeleton written by Richard Stallman, by
  simplifying the original so-called "semantic" parser.
License: GPL-3+ with exception
 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
[…]
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License version 3 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3".
 .
 As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains
 part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work
 under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a
 parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof
 as a parser skeleton.  Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute
 the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this
 special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting
 Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public
 License without this special exception.
 .
 This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation in
 version 2.2 of Bison.


Is this compatible with CDDL-1?

As far as I understand CDDL-1 and GPL are not compatible, but when I read this 
special exception correctly, in the case that no new parser generator is done 
any terms, any license can be used for the resulting work.

Would it make sense to include an URL to the license in the copyright file? I 
did not see an extra field in the machine readable file format description, but 
I could always include it at the end of the license text if thats wanted.

Thanks,

Is m4 autoconf code "like a compiler or linker"?

Paul Elliott — 2012-05-05T16:25:45

I have some gplv3 autoconf m4 files in my project.

These files exist solely to tell the compiler how to find the include files and 
what compiler options to use, and tell the linker how to find the libraries, 
and what linker options to use.

None of the code in these m4 files exists at runtime.

I wonder if inclusion of these files in my project forces  me to upgrade to 
gplv3+ from gplv2+, which I would rather not do unless necessary.

Can I say that since this code does not exist at runtime, the use of these m4 
files is like the use of a compiler or linker?

If I used a v3 compiler or linker in my project, that would not force me to 
make my project v3. Since all versions of the GPL allow "use" almost without 
restriction.

This is really saying that since these files are used at compile/link time my 
ultimate result is not a derived work, even partially of these files.

Also the author has placed a gplv3 special exception that allows "the output 
of autoconf" to be propagated. But by the argument above, perhaps this 
exception is not really necessary.

However, it would be the gplv3 that allows me to redistribute these files.

How does one say in a debian/copyright file that is gplv3+ that allows one to 
distribute the source package, but gplv2+ that allows the binary package to be 
distributed?

I am thinking about packaging these m4 files under gplv3 separately, so that my 
package would not have to distribute under gplv3.

Fotodepilacion laser hombre ó mujer/¿La crisis te impide Divorciarte?

Diverticupon.com — 2012-05-01T10:32:20

Fotodepilacion laser hombre  mujer/La crisis te impide Divorciarte?

JDOM license

Tomasz Muras — 2012-05-01T17:03:07

Hello,

(please CC me on the answer).

Would you consider JDOM license [1] compatible with GNU GPL?

[1] 
https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/blob/master/core/src/java/org/jdom2/Attribute.java

best regards,
Tomek

Channel logos in vdr-plugin-markad

Tobi — 2012-04-28T14:38:25

Hi!

I intend to upload the vdr-plugin-markad, a VDR plugin which detects 
commercial breaks in VDR recordings.

The plugin uses monochrome masks to support the detection of channel logos.

See: http://www.tighturl.com/59n0

Such a mask isn't the real channel logo, but it was extracted from one.

Should the channel logo masks be stripped from the package?

BR,

Tobias

Reflexología podal Tailandesa,dale un gustazo a tus pies /Fin de semana 2 personas + Excursión avistamiento de delfines

2012-04-24T19:33:05

Reflexologa podal Tailandesa,dale un gustazo a tus pies /Fin de semana 2 personas + Excursin avistamiento de delfines

Camisa de volantes preciosa/ Sandalia en plataforma de esparto y tacón alto

Canbecando.es — 2012-04-26T23:05:07

Camisa de volantes preciosa/ Sandalia en plataforma de esparto y tacn alto

RV: Ganate el chance hoy

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"Minimized" JavaScript in upstream tarball

Dmitry Nezhevenko — 2012-04-26T18:34:08

Hi,

I'm trying to package a "web" application that contains some
minimized third-party JavaScript code. It's from JQuery world.

Anyway I'm going to package "git" snapshot because latest release needs
to old versions of dependencies (like django < 1.4). 

So I've a target in debian/rules to get tarball with source snapshot. It
removes all such JavaScript. Later debian/links creates symlinks to files
from corresponding libjs-* packages.

I've faced an issue where one of JS files is "obfuscated" such way, but
it's not so populate so it's not in debian now:

https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard/blob/4be2b88fa584d2c958871fce7f9ce20f80b3d7ad/reviewboard/static/rb/js/jquery.masonry.js

Upstream distributes in both "source" and "minimized" forms:

http://masonry.desandro.com/jquery.masonry.min.js
https://github.com/desandro/masonry/blob/master/jquery.masonry.js

How this particular file should be handled? The only idea I've is to
remove this file in my get-git-snapshot-source step and download "right"
one instead.

MIT/Expat with "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil"statement

Dmitry Nezhevenko — 2012-04-26T09:49:39

Hi,

I'm going to package django-pipeline, that is licensed under MIT/Expat
license except one file, that is MIT/Expat too but with one addede
sentence:
  https://github.com/cyberdelia/django-pipeline/blob/master/LICENSE

  jsmin.py (License-information from the file)
  --------------------------------------------
  This code is original from jsmin by Douglas Crockford, it was translated to
  Python by Baruch Even. The original code had the following copyright and
  license.
  
  Copyright (©) 2002 Douglas Crockford  (www.crockford.com)
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
  this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
  the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
  use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
  of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
  so, subject to the following conditions:
  
  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
  copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  
  
  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
  SOFTWARE.

So it's probably non-free. But at the same time jsmin.py file in package
is just wrapper around jsmin:

  class JSMinCompressor(CompressorBase):
      """
      JS compressor based on the Python library jsmin
      (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsmin/).
      """
      def compress_js(self, js):
          from jsmin import jsmin
          return jsmin(js)

I've a few ideas how to at least workaround it:
- repack upstream tarball and replace jsmin.py with stub one that returns
  original JS without compressing.
- don't repack tarball, just patch this jsmin.py using debian/patches so that
  it will not use jsmin at all

Any other suggestions?

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2012-04-25T23:42:07

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No source code for wesnoth-music

Evgeny Kapun — 2012-04-15T20:08:27

Hi,
I've found that music tracks for The Battle for Wesnoth (package wesnoth-music in Debian) are only provided as compressed Ogg Vorbis files, without any information used to generate them. I have two questions:

* Does wesnoth-music comply with DFSG? I've heard that at certain point DFSG only applied to programs, but later firmware, documentation and other materials were also included. Does DFSG (and, specifically, its requirement of having source code included) apply to music?

* Does distributing wesnoth-music without source code comply with its license (GPL 2+)?

There was some discussion about this problem on wesnoth forums [1][2]. It mentions that at least some of music files in question were generated using proprietary software, and that even the authors can't regenerate some of them anymore.

[1] http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=21082
[2] http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=30728