On 01/19/2016 12:38 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
There are several problems, which should really be fixed upstream: * files in backend/ say that they inherit from dnssd.c, and their licence says:* Copyright 2008-2015 by Apple Inc. * * These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the * property of Apple Inc. and are protected by Federal copyright * law. Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file * "LICENSE.txt" "LICENSE" which should have been included with this * file. If this file is missing or damaged, see the license at * "http://www.cups.org/";. * * This file is subject to the Apple OS-Developed Software exception.There's no "LICENSE{,.txt}" file in the cups-filters source package, letting us up to guesses.This is the LICENSE.txt file of CUPS. I will look into whether I can copy it (or the relevant parts) into the COPYING file of cups-filters and modify the copyright headers appropriately.
Fixed in upstream BZR. I have replaced "LICENSE{,.txt}" by "COPYING" and removed the hint that if the file is missing that you find it at www.cups.org.
I have also removed the Apple license exception. Developers of derivative work from CUPS (as cups-filters) do not need to carry it on and cups-filters is not designed for use on Mac OS X, as Mac OS X does this task on its own.
I did this change not only in the backend/ directory but in the whole cups-filters package.
I also removed the ugly SVN file ID placeholders ("$Id") all over.
I have fixed a total of 73 files.
In general, as you can see from the debian/copyright file, there is quite a mess of various licenses, and it seems that the COPYING file from the source package is outdated.I have recently added some "forgotten" files to COPYING. Probably only beh is missing now. I will update this. The Braille stuff is already in.
I have added the beh and implicitclass backends now.
This will make up upstream 1.7.1 (as this does not add features).
This will get 1.8.0 as I got a feature addition for the Braille support. Till