Package: src:citadel Version: 7.37-8 I was asked to review this source package in NEW, and found problems with this package which caused me to reject the package. It appears that the problems with this source also exist in the packages in stable, testing, and unstable.
----- Forwarded message from Mike O'Connor <[email protected]> ----- From: Mike O'Connor <[email protected]> To: Michael Meskes <[email protected]>, Debian Citadel Team <[email protected]> Cc: Debian Installer <[email protected]> Subject: citadel_7.42-1_amd64.changes REJECTED Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:26:01 +0000 Hi Maintainer, REJECT: source contains incompatible licenses, and insufficient debian/copyright I'm sorry, but at this time, I must reject this package. Here are the problems I found with the package: debian/copyright's mention of the GPL says version 2 or at your option any later version. This does not seem to be accurate, and needs to be clarified. docs/citadel.html says: You may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, which is included in this manual.<br> ./guesstimezone.sh says: either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ./openldap/rfc2739.schema and ./openldap/citadel.schema say: This file is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. And here we have a problem. We have code which is version 3 or later, and code which is version 2. Since version 3 is not compatible with version 2. -- ./citadel.h, ./threads.c, ./sysdep.c, ./messages.c say: * See copyright.txt for copyright information. There is no copyright.txt however. -- Many of the comments in the ./modules/imap/imap_list.c (and others in that directory) are taken verbatim from the IMAP RFCs, but there is no mention of this anywhere. I believe this can be a problem, the RFCs licenses are problematic. At the very least they require attribution, but I don't believe that the material in the RFCs is redistributable. -- Less important things that should also be fixed: "Copyright: (C) 1987-2006 Citadel development team" should be extended to 2008 (according to docs/citadel.html) ./modules/imap/serv_imap.c (and others) have, Copyright (C) 2000-2007 by Art Cancro and others. So the years for Art Cancro in debian/copyright should be expanded. debian/copyright says: Copyright for CRC16: (C) 2002-2003 Indigo Systems Corporation however, crc16.c says: Copyright (c) 1999-2003, Indigo Systems Corporation ---------- bye, stew === If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the override file requires editing, reply to this email. ----- End forwarded message -----
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