Bug#631986: unclear copyright for /usr/bin/extractrc

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>]

Package: kdesdk-scripts
Version: 4:4.6.3-1
Severity: normal

  Hello,

  While doing sponsor work on a prospective package that embeds a copy of 
/usr/bin/extractrc, I found that it is licenced as

$ cat /usr/bin/extractrc
#! /usr/bin/env perl

### TODO: other copyrights, license?
# Copyright (c) 2004 Richard Evans <rich@ridas.com>

  This copyright notice, without any accompanying licence, simply
forbids all redistribution and use, and doesn't correspond to the
assertion in debian/copyright that all the files in scripts/ in the
source package are GPLed.

  I'm condident the original author intended to release this script
under a free license, but it would be good to get a clarification on
that.

  Cheers,

        Vincent


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash