Package gkermit describes ckermit as non-free

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On a Trisquel 6.0 system with default configuration and gkermit installed the output of apt-cache show gkermit is:

Package: gkermit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/comm
Installed-Size: 120
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <name at domain>
Original-Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <name at domain>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0-9
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/main/g/gkermit/gkermit_1.0-9_i386.deb
Size: 40936
MD5sum: efc75f27e91ff8c5c7e97098ac2876ae
SHA1: 961cc4e671acb904193293ab41e1851a4f057c01
SHA256: 0eb14038e20d12cec4a307aa788f198669c8c27d3f33c3dc0e56f405b282cd55
Description: A serial and network communications package
Description-md5: 87078cd7155254171352b000e9fb35fb
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

As you can see this does not recommend proprietary software. If your output is different please add ALL of it here. Otherwise please say what proprietary software it recommends and give the steps needed to recreate the offending output.

I seem to have filed against wrong version. On version 5.5 arch amd64 the output is (regardless if the package is installed)

$ apt-cache show gkermit
Package: gkermit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/comm
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <name at domain>
Original-Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <name at domain>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0-9
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/main/g/gkermit/gkermit_1.0-9_amd64.deb
Size: 44204
MD5sum: e154f0f3ac461bc793fe5c3602c86087
SHA1: f6edc2e1aea82b25a787d9d17ffa0d549c4dc9e8
SHA256: 46758e5a793bac9aa6518ecac00df8e3b904f1b7ee3bdcfa4180e34f51c0d515
Description-en: A serial and network communications package
G-Kermit is a GPL'd kermit package. It offers medium-independent terminal
session and file transfer. The non-free package ckermit adds connection
establishment, character-set translation and scripting features.
Description-md5: 87078cd7155254171352b000e9fb35fb
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

That mentioned package is not included in Trisquel atm. Looks like it's in multiverse (suggesting non-free) in ubuntu and non-free in debian. However, the actual licensing details of the newer version in ubuntu seem like a bsd license which is free. Note the version numbers.

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/c/ckermit/ckermit_302-1/copyright
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/c/ckermit/ckermit_211-15/ckermit.copyright

And the homepage puts that forth in cleartext

http://www.kermitproject.org/ck90.html#license

This text also appears in gkermit's source debian/control in 6.0

Assigning to upstream:

See Debian bug #732938 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732938)

As of version 9 ckermit is not proprietary software but in fact free software. So the bug isn't quite that it recommends non-free software it is that the description is incorrect and ckermit should not be labeled as of free software (at least version 9 isn't.)

The version with a free software license is now in Trusty multiverse. Accordingly I've coded and tested a patch[1] to pull it in to Belenos.

[1] http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2014-October/000860.html

Changing status after seeing what SirGrant does.

Another patch has been accepted but not this. Assigning myself for the rework.

This might or might not be a duplicate https://trisquel.info/en/issues/12442

Revised patches have been posted to trisquel-devel starting with this one:

http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2014-October/000863.html

rework

The work on the patch is being tracked in this DI https://devel.trisquel.info/leny2010/package-helpers/issues/3

Closed the Merge Request and DI - back to upstream for what is now a minor documentation error.

Still in 7.0

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.