Bug#764553: base-files: Does neither state which version nor which variant of the Artistic License is in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic
Package: base-files
Version: 7.5
Severity: important
Dear Santiago,
neither inside /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic nor in
/usr/share/doc/base-files/README nor in
/usr/share/doc/base-files/changelog.gz is declared (or even hinted)
which version or variant of "The Artistic License" is shipped in
/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.
According to https://spdx.org/licenses/ there are at least five
registered versions and variants of the Artistic License:
* Artistic License 1.0
* Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)
* Artistic License 1.0 w/clause 8
* Artistic License 2.0
* Clarified Artistic License
According to "dwdiff -c", our /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic is
actually the "Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)" license.
Please clearly state inside the file but also in the README which
version and variant of the Artistic License is shipped with the package.
A bit of background about some of the variants and versions is at
http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0 as well as at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental'), (109, 'buildd-unstable'), (109, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
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