Bug#589032: libocamlgraph: copyright file doesn't mention LGPL exception
Package: libocamlgraph-ocaml-dev
Version: 1.5-1
Severity: minor
/usr/share/doc/libocamlgraph*/copyright says this:
"Files: dgraph/*
Copyright: © 2009 CEA
License: LGPL-2.1
Files: *
Copyright: © 2004-2008 Sylvain Conchon <Sylvain.Conchon@lri.fr>
© 2004-2008 Jean-Christophe Filliâtre <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>
© 2004-2008 Julien Signoles <Julien.Signoles@lri.fr>
License: LGPL-2"
However the README and the LICENSE in source also have the usual OCaml Linking exception:
"As a special exception to the GNU Library General Public License, you
may link, statically or dynamically, a "work that uses the Library"
with a publicly distributed version of the Library to produce an
executable file containing portions of the Library, and distribute
that executable file under terms of your choice, without any of the
additional requirements listed in clause 6 of the GNU Library General
Public License. By "a publicly distributed version of the Library", we
mean either the unmodified Library as distributed, or a
modified version of the Library that is distributed under the
conditions defined in clause 3 of the GNU Library General Public
License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons
why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Library General
Public License."
I think libocamlgraph should say 'LGPL-2 | other' and 'LGPL-2.1 | other' and list the exception
as some other OCaml packages do.
Also since there are quite a few OCaml packages distributed under LGPL-2.x + Linking exception
shouldn't that combination be listed somewhere under /usr/share/common-licenses?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc3-00001-g6bdebf9 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libocamlgraph-ocaml-dev depends on:
ii ocaml-nox [ocaml-nox-3.11.2] 3.11.2-1 ML implementation with a class-bas
libocamlgraph-ocaml-dev recommends no packages.
libocamlgraph-ocaml-dev suggests no packages.
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