Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Package: disc-cover > Severity: important > > There is possibly a license issue with this package, however, things are > a bit unclear. > > It might be that part of the disc-cover package has insufficient > copyright statement by the authors. This is from the recollection of the > current maintainer. For completeness, this is the full copyright file in > the package: > > | It was downloaded from http://home.wanadoo.nl/jano/ > | > | Upstream Author: J.I. van Hemert <jvhemert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> > | > | Copyright: > | > | GPL (see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL) > > Someone with more time and interest on his hands than me or the > previous maintainer (the package is orphaned now) should probably > investigate this. I ran "apt-get source disc-cover", and looked at the disc-cover script in the package. It contains the standard GPL header: > # Copyright <A9> 1999-2002 J.I. van Hemert > # > # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > # (at your option) any later version. > # > # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > # GNU General Public License for more details. > # > # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software > # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. (<A9> is a copyright symbol.) The COPYING file in the package contains a copy of the GPL. The only other script in the package, freedb/index.cgi, also contains a GPL header and the same author's copyright. There is no licensing bug in this package, but there is a bug in that the debian/copyright file does not include the full GPL information. Just copy the copyright statement and GPL header, and paste that into debian/copyright. - Josh Triplett
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