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Bug#642255: lintian does not handle AGPL license



On 09/21/2011 02:16 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
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> 
> Thanks for the bug report. I'd tad easier for us to reproduce the
> problem if you attached the actual copyright file. (lintian already
> tries to detect AGPL-3, but maybe it doesn't try hard enough...)

I've attached the copyright file I'm using. The file does not carry the
full AGPL-3 license, just part of it. I'll have to change that because
base-files package currently does not carry AGPL-3 license. Debian bug
#621462

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
Format: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=174
Upstream-Name: configshell
Upstream-Contact: Jerome Martin <jxm@risingtidesystems.com>
Source: http://www.risingtidesystems.com/git/?p=configshell.git;a=summary

Files: *
Copyright: 2010 RisingTide Systems LLC.
License: AGPL-3

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2011 Ritesh Raj Sarraf
License: AGPL-3



License: AGPL-3
 The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
 software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure
 cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.
 .
 The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed
 to take away your freedom to share and change the works.  By contrast,
 our General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to
 share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free
 software for all its users.
 .
 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
 price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
 them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you
 want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new
 free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
 .
 Developers that use our General Public Licenses protect your rights
 with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer
 you this License which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute
 and/or modify the software.
 .
 A secondary benefit of defending all users' freedom is that
 improvements made in alternate versions of the program, if they
 receive widespread use, become available for other developers to
 incorporate.  Many developers of free software are heartened and
 encouraged by the resulting cooperation.  However, in the case of
 software used on network servers, this result may fail to come about.
 The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and
 letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its
 source code to the public.
 .
 The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to
 ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available
 to the community.  It requires the operator of a network server to
 provide the source code of the modified version running there to the
 users of that server.  Therefore, public use of a modified version, on
 a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source
 code of the modified version.
 .
 An older license, called the Affero General Public License and
 published by Affero, was designed to accomplish similar goals.  This is
 a different license, not a version of the Affero GPL, but Affero has
 released a new version of the Affero GPL which permits relicensing under
 this license.

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