Licensing/copyright issues: open-vm-tools/lib/string/convertutf.c #148
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The license for convertutf.c and convertutf.h does not explicitly permit, or prohibit, modification of the files, and restricts use to "products supporting the Unicode Standard". This is a problem for distribution with Debian, which complies to strict guidelines. See details at #148 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823100 The code is not essential for open-vm-tools. It's needed by code in bsd_printf.c and related code, which in turn is needed by msgfmt.c and msgList.c. The latter code is not needed for open-vm-tools, and can therefore be eliminated from the open-vm-tools package. When HAS_BSD_PRINTF isn't set, Str_Snprintf() and Str_Vsnprintf will fall back to vsnprintf(), and Str_Asprintf()/Str_Vasprintf() will fall back to vasprintf(). Under Linux and FreeBSD these functions are properly implemented, and support %ls and %S.
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Fixed with commit 42ac2a1 in the devel branch. |
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According to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the file is not redistributable. Please see the bug against ghostscript for details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823100
As it seems the code was even removed by the unicode consortium as being buggy and broken.
http://unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=90
Please migrate to libicu or something similar.
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