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Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)



On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:47 -0400, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 14:18:52 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote:
> > 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.  ....

  Ah; good point.  I'll take a closer look at all of the files again.


> > 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.
  
   Upstream is, so far, out of contact...



Jame




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