Bug#378654: Missing upstream copyright holder name in /usr/share/doc/busybox/copyright
Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.1.3-2
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: Policy 12.5
The Debian policy requires the copyright file to hold the upstream
copyright information. I know that it is an agregate of many packages,
each with its own author, thus making copyright asertion difficult.
I know that the upstream author of the actual agregate package is also
the Debian package maintainer.
A suggested fix is in the attached patch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL (charmap=ISO-8859-8)
Versions of packages busybox depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
busybox recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- debian/copyright.orig 2006-07-18 06:26:25.000000000 +0300
+++ debian/copyright 2006-07-18 06:29:38.000000000 +0300
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.busybox.net/busybox
+Busybox is an agregate of multiple packages. These packages are copyrighted
+by their respective authors.
+
+Busybox itself is Copyright (C) 1999-2005 by Erik Andersen
+
Copyright:
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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