Dear Maintainer, Upstream has added licensing information that is both inaccurate as well as now violates the terms of the DFSG. Specifically: https://github.com/simh/simh/commit/ce2adce632e1a22e6d76d4bf726d6b863373c550 Discussion: https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/new_license/91108560 If this package is to remain in debian, it will need to move to the non-free section.
As an alternative, Bob Supnik's "classic" version continues to release - version 2.12-2 just released 25 April 2022 - and would be an excellent replacement. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ Unfortunately, that version still must overcome the licensing issues outlined in Debian bug #824883.
Control: forwarded -1 https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/new_license/91108560 Control: notfound -1 3.8.1-6.1 Control: found -1 3.8.12-1 ... The change isn't present in the version in Debian, fixing the versions. https://github.com/simh/simh/commits/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/simh/simh/tags Debian doesn't even appear to use the GitHub version of simh: https://sources.debian.org/src/simh/3.8.1-6.1/debian/watch/ https://sources.debian.org/src/simh/3.8.1-6.1/debian/copyright/ Or just not get updated or switch to a fork of simh that was made from the commit just before the license change.
Hi, as per bug #1010998 the lastest upstream version is not DFSG free any more. The license file with the non-free section does not exist in this release https://github.com/simh/simh/releases/tag/v3.11-1 but it should be verified that the problematic text is not specified in single files. The upstream issue which has lead to the problematic LICENSE.txt file https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1028 is talking about just summarising licenses of single files. So inspecting the code would be needed as well. Maybe its safer to follow the hint in this issue https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1163 and rather package the free fork at https://github.com/open-simh/simh/ Kind regards Andreas.