FTR: Giuseppe asked me to remove him from Uploaders via private e-mail. On 16.09.2014 09:18, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: > >> However I don't understand the sentence about "possible LGPL violations" >> and would appreciate some clarification. > > If you had done a comparison between the code in Debian and the new > upstream (which should happen for each new upstream release uploaded > to Debian), you would see that upstream stripped copyright and license > information from one of the embedded code copies (streflop), which > seems like a license violation to me. I did a complete copyright review as I do for every new package I become an uploader. You can find the new file in the SVN repository. I'm not finished yet but it appears there are no significant differences between streflop 3.7.1 and 3.9.1. I also compared those files with the ones for the Spring engine, which also embeds streflop for the same reasons, and I spotted no major differences on first glance. There is also a LGPL.txt and README.txt file which explain the licensing thus I see no obvious LGPL violations here. So I assume that almost all code is licensed under LGPL-2.1+ and a permissive license from Sun Microsystems. > I'm not sure if upstream has > fixed this issue yet. Also Mark (upstream) lost faith in the Debian > packaging processes and has abandoned the package. I simply have too > many other things to do so I'm glad to see someone else taking an > interest in MegaGlest. I'm sad to hear that. I'm willing to fix outstanding issues but I need to know what specific files are affected and what needs to be done to fix them. Regards, Markus
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