Package: fossil
Version: 1:1.33-3+b1
Severity: normal
The upstream (Sqlite fame) is famous for his preference on BSD over GPL.
So when I saw debian/copyright file, it was not just old format but
declaring GPL. Wow, this can't be true. I checked the current source
which comes with COPYRIGHT-BSD2.txt. Basically, all files in the source
are in BSD-2, MIT, Zlib.
With careful scanning of source using my debmake command, I only see a
few FSF/GPL related files but they are all in autosetup/*.
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
# program. This Exception is an additional permission under section 7
# of the GNU General Public License, version 3 ("GPLv3").
Yes, these are permissive special ones.
Did FTP master overlooked this when accepting this package? Did
upstream switched license? (I doubt both and confused ...)
At least we should update debian/copyright matching the current source.
Also, the upstream has the bash completion file but this is not installed.
The latest is Version 1.35 (2016-06-14) Why not updated for the last 1
year with 2 releases...
Well bug #693570 should be closed by now. Leaving it as resolved is
confusing.
Maybe this package needs love ..
Osamu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages fossil depends on:
ii libc6 2.23-5
ii libfuse2 2.9.7-1
ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4
ii libsqlite3-0 3.14.2-1
ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2h-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
fossil recommends no packages.
Versions of packages fossil suggests:
ii gnupg 1.4.20-6
ii gnupg2 2.1.11-7
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