Package: mawk
Version: 1.3.3-14
Severity: serious
Justification: mawk's sources do not agree with Debian's add-on copyright.
Justification: mawk's sources have several comments stating explicitly that it
is distributable in GPLv2, e.g.,
Mawk is distributed without warranty under the terms of
the GNU General Public License, version 2, 1991.
The Debian changelog has no indication that Mike Brennan changed the license.
Debian's copyright notice has added
/usr/share/doc/mawk/copyright
which says
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.
(The Debian changelog does not indicate at what point the license terms
were changed).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mawk depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
mawk recommends no packages.
mawk suggests no packages.
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