Hello, first many thanks for your bug-report.
Here are my arguments as a non-lawyer: First, let's look at the general information in COPYING(.*). There are two files in the root directory: * COPYING contains only the GNU General Public License Version 3 as its license. * COPYING.LIB contains only the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 as its license. The .LIB extension clearly indicates that libunistring is generally licensed under GPLv3+ and the lib directory under LGPLv3+. The .LIB extension clearly shows that libunistring is licensed under GPLv3+ and the lib directory under LGPLv3+. The global statement "It is dual-licensed under the GNU LGPLv3+ or the GNU GPLv2+" is incorrect, because the individual files in their respective sections each have only one license. This is correctly reflected in the current debian/copyright file. [quote] Files: * Copyright: 1995-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GPL-3+ [...] Files: lib/* Copyright: 2001-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: LGPL-3+ [/quote] Likewise, all licenses of the files that do not conform to the above scheme are correctly entered in debian/copyright. Therefore, I am closing this bug. CU Jörg -- New: GPG Fingerprint: 63E0 075F C8D4 3ABB 35AB 30EE 09F8 9F3C 8CA1 D25D GPG key (long) : 09F89F3C8CA1D25D GPG Key : 8CA1D25D CAcert Key S/N : 0E:D4:56 Jörg Frings-Fürst L-Għarb, Gozo, MT-GRB 1131 git: https://git.jff.email/cgit/ Matrix: @joergff:matrix.org My wish list: - Please send me a picture from the nature at your home. Am Donnerstag, dem 31.07.2025 um 08:41 -0300 schrieb Walter Lozano: > Package: libunistring5 > Version: 1.3-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I noticed that in git commit [1] the copyright file was updated, > changing it > from > > diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright > index f7ff1645..2c0152eb 100644 > --- a/debian/copyright > +++ b/debian/copyright > @@ -5,7 +5,1255 @@ Source: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/ > > Files: * > Copyright: 1995-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > -License: LGPL-3+ or GPL-2+ > +License: GPL-3+ > > This seems to be a mistake since most of the files mention the > license as > > It is dual-licensed under "the GNU LGPLv3+ or the GNU GPLv2+". > > It looks like a scanner tool such as scan-copyrights was used to > generate the > copyright file, which is unable to properly detect the dual license > and only > picks GPL-3. > > Please check it, thanks in advance. > > [1] > https://git.jff.email/cgit/libunistring.git/commit/debian/copyright?id=b4d8f3b5462619b54517aded6f9c605817c27000 > > [...]
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