> One of things I decided to do as part of adopting the > mrtg-ping-probe package was to rewrite debian/copyright for DEP-5. Thanks for taking care. > The first thing I noticed when I was doing that is that while the > original debian/copyright was for GPL-2+ for all files, the actual > source COPYRIGHT file looks to be GPL-2 not GPL-2+. Please inspect the source files of the program to see what they state themselfs. It is not uncommon to see a statement in the source that it is licensed as GPL version 2 or any later value, while the COPYRIGHT file is just the GPL v2 license. Even in the copyright file is often says; GPL version 2 or later, on Debian systems you can find GPL version 2 under the following link... > In the new version of d/copyright; I've kept GPL-2+ for the debian > directory files but listed "Files: *" as just GPL-2. Both with a > line pointing to the GPL-2 file in common licenses. Does that seem > the way to go? Depends on what you find in the source files themselves I would say. If not every sourcefile makes it clear on its own, you could ask upstream to clarify and ask to put a license statement into every file in the source. > Note also that Lintian now complains about the FSF address in the > first license entry, presumably because I copied it from the > original source COPYRIGHT file. Please let upstream know. Paul
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