Lintian tag: license-problem-convert-utf-code

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The following file source files include material under a non-free license
from Unicode Inc. Therefore, it is not possible to ship this in main or
contrib.

This license does not grant any permission to modify the files (thus
failing DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant seems to attempt to restrict
use to "products supporting the Unicode Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6).

In this case a solution is to use libicu and to remove this code by
repacking.

Please refer to Bug#823100 for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: cruft

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
binaryen 120-4 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [third_party/llvm-project/ConvertUTF.cpp]
chromium 140.0.7339.80-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [third_party/breakpad/breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
chromium 140.0.7339.80-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [third_party/swiftshader/third_party/llvm-16.0/llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
firefox 142.0.1-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
firefox-esr 128.14.0esr-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
funguloids 1.06-15 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [include/SimpleIni/ConvertUTF.c]
libdbd-odbc-perl 1.61-4 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [ConvertUTF.c]
llvm-toolchain-14 1:14.0.6-20 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-17 1:17.0.6-22 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-18 1:18.1.8-18 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-19 1:19.1.7-3 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-20 1:20.1.8-1~exp1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-21 1:21.1.0~+rc2-1~exp1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-21 1:21.1.0-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
llvm-toolchain-snapshot 1:22~++20250731080150+be449d6b6587-1~exp1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
openvpn3-client 25+dfsg-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [openvpn3-core/openvpn/common/unicode-impl.hpp]
openvpn3-client 25+dfsg-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [debian/patches/0001_import-unicode-impl-from-llvm.patch]
parser 3.5.1-3 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/lib/punycode/pa_convert_utf.c]
qt6-webengine 6.8.2+dfsg-4 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/dawn/third_party/dxc/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.c]
qt6-webengine 6.8.2+dfsg-4 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/breakpad/breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
qt6-webengine 6.9.1+dfsg-5 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/dawn/third_party/dxc/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.c]
qt6-webengine 6.9.1+dfsg-5 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/breakpad/breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
qtwebengine-opensource-src 5.15.18+dfsg-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/breakpad/breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
qtwebengine-opensource-src 5.15.19+dfsg-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/breakpad/breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
spring 106.0+dfsg-4 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [rts/lib/assimp/contrib/ConvertUTF/ConvertUTF.c]
swiftlang 6.0.3-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llvm-project/llvm/lib/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
swiftlang 6.0.3-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [llbuild/lib/llvm/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
swiftlang 6.0.3-2 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [indexstore-db/lib/LLVMSupport/Support/ConvertUTF.cpp]
thunderbird 1:128.14.0esr-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
thunderbird 1:140.2.0esr-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
ugene 52.1+dfsg-1 overridden license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [src/libs_3rdparty/breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.cc]
unshield 1.5.1-1 error license-problem-convert-utf-code 1 [lib/convert_utf/ConvertUTF.c]