Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi,




>Per https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals , I filed Bug #823848
>"as an RC bug on the package".


I have reassigned it to ftpmasters, I don't think there is need to wait for
the maintainer opinion, this is a binary without source.
>I did two runs of license-reconsile, after fixing the MIT/X11 license
>issue for config/install-sh.  In the first run I kept the existing
>GPL-2+ designations; wc -l returned 212 lines.  For the second run I
>changed most instances of GPL-2+ to GPL-2; wc -l returned 126.  Based
>on this, and the fact that the official btrfs-progs*/COPYING file
>states:


I see README.md saying this is GPL-2, so you might want to change to GPL-2
and list all the GPL-2+ files explicitly.


>Thank you for notifying me of this Gianfranco.  It also affects>oldstable and stable.  Is this an RC/serious level bug for all
>affected versions?  I will open the bug for this once I've patched all
>affected versions, since it's something I'm now already working on :-)
>Might as well fix them all at the same time, right!  Please confirm
>that I'm not mistaken in my conclusions regarding the licensing of
>this package.


I think you are right, but please note that you should mention all
the GPL-2+ files too.

BTW this might be RC, but I'm not sure it is worth fixing it in stable.

I'll wait for some more appropriate answer here maybe :)

G.