Package: info Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5
The file /usr/share/doc/info/copyright contains:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
...
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' file.
However, both the man page for info as well as info clearly state:
Copyright C 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty.
You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General
Public License. For more information about these matters, see the
files named COPYING.
and
There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
Since the file COPYING is not shipped by Debian, I could not check there.
So in conclusion, the copyright file for Debian claims "version 2 or
any later version" while both documentation and programm output miss
this clause (and hence refer to the original GPL). The original GPL
is, however, not included in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. So
looking at the package installed, the licences is clearly wrong and
missing on Debian.
Given the authorship, I assume this is an (consistent) oversight in the
source for both the man page and the programm itself. For clarity,
COPYING should be checked.
I suggest the following:
*Contact upstream and ask to clarify
*Patch both the man page and the programm to refer to
/usr/share/doc/info/copyright
instead of the file "COPYING" so that the reader is drawn to a file
actually shipped in the package (or, alternativly, ship COPYING as
well).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.6-grsec-cz03
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages info depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
info recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php
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