Bug#829027: libstroke: missing/obsolete coypright information
On 2016-06-30 03:22:09 +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:44:36PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The Debian policy manual says:
> >
> > "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
> > (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors."
>
> This clause is made up of two requirements:
>
> 1. "the copyright file must say where the upstream sources ... were obtained"
>
> 2. "the copyright file ... should name the original authors"
>
> libstroke does not violate the first requirement: the copyright file
> does say where the upstream sources /were/ obtained, even though they
> can no longer be obtained there. (I believe that the requirement is for
> FTP-master verification of the copyright status that the copyright file
> claims; since that verification has already taken place, it is not a
> problem that the source is no longer accessible there.)
I thought that it would still be needed as long as the package is
in Debian (so that users could check too) so that the location
should implicitly still be valid.
> I'm not sure whether libstroke violates the second requirement. The
> original author is, arguably, the company called "ETLA", and one could
> argue that the URL included in the copyright file names them. You are
> correct that it could be much clearer, and the next upload of libstroke
> ought to correct this.
This is not exactly ETLA. The upstream COPYRIGHT file says:
"Mark F. Willey, ETLA Technical".
> Someone has contributed a patch fixing the autoconf problem. You are
> encouraged to prepare a QA upload applying it (and also fixing this
> bug): <https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto>.
I might have some time to look at this next week (otherwise after
July 16).
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