On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:07:13PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > There are some issues with debian/copyright: it's missing the download URL > > and pointing to GPL instead of LGPL. > Regarding the licence I'm not quite sure: The author uses the GNU > _Library_ General Public License 2.1 or later but > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ states "has been superseded by the > Lesser GPL." and http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html says "It > also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, > version 2, hence the version number 2.1." > > If I interpret this correctly than referring to the _Lesser_ GPL > would be ok (as the successor, by the "or later" clause, and because > there is not even a version 2.1 of the _Library_ GPL). Is this > correct? > > I've now changed the reference in debian/copyright to point to the > LGPL. Any comments on that one? If my conclusions are correct I guess this package would be ready for upload, too. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : infos zur usenet-hierarchie at.*: http://www.usenet.at/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Vic Chesnutt: Thumbtack
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature