Package: debmirror Version: 20090807 Tags: patch The copyright info is somewhat inconsistent between script and debian/copyright file and misses the years of contribution from the original author and main maintainers of the package.
Besides that the licence refers to "GPL", without specifying which version of the licence. Given when the script was written, it originally fell under GPL-2, but other versions could be said to be implicitly covered as well. Easiest solution is to make this explicit "GPL version 2 or later". The attached patch is proposed to fix these issues. The past maintainers of debmirror will be contacted to check that they are OK with it.
commit f56437f2c613f5b2bc8df638aa9da876571771a7 Author: Frans Pop <[email protected]> Date: Wed Aug 12 19:35:50 2009 +0200 Update licence and copyright information Clarify version of GPL (version 2 or later). Update periods of activity for various maintainers both in the perl script and in the debian/copyright file. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index f6324ad..56d7f63 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ debmirror (2009xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Set more accurate versioned build dependency on debhelper. + * Clarify version of GPL (version 2 or later). + * Update periods of activity for various maintainers of the script both + in the perl script and in the debian/copyright file. - -- Frans Pop <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:38:27 +0200 + -- Frans Pop <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:33:54 +0200 debmirror (20090807) unstable; urgency=low diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index a8ef4cd..383c0de 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -1,10 +1,20 @@ This package was put together by Joerg Wendland <[email protected]> on Thu Oct 25 17:12:13 CEST 2001 -The upstream author was Joey Hess <[email protected]>, the script -itself was maintained by Joerg Wendland <[email protected]> and -later by Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> -for some time, and is now maintained by Frans Pop <[email protected]>. +The original author of the script is Joey Hess <[email protected]>. +Later the script itself was maintained for some time by Joerg Wendland +<[email protected]> and by Goswin von Brederlow +<[email protected]>. +It is currently being maintained by Frans Pop <[email protected]>. -License: The debmirror script is licensed under the terms of the GNU - General Public License (see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL). +Copyright: + Copyright 2001 Joey Hess <[email protected]> + Copyright 2001-2002 Joerg Wendland <[email protected]> + Copyright 2003-2007 Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> + Copyright 2009 Frans Pop <[email protected]> + +License: + The debmirror script is licensed under the terms of the GNU + General Public License, either version 2 of licence (see + /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2) or (at your option) any later + version. diff --git a/debmirror b/debmirror index 433fd03..5b4f156 100755 --- a/debmirror +++ b/debmirror @@ -1625,8 +1625,11 @@ sub debug { =head1 COPYRIGHT This program is copyright 2001 by Joey Hess <[email protected]>, under -the terms of the GNU GPL, copyright 2003 by Goswin von Brederlow -<[email protected]>. +the terms of the GNU GPL (either version 2 of the licence or, at your +option, any later version), copyright 2001-2002 by Joerg Wendland +<[email protected]>, copyright 2003-2007 by Goswin von Brederlow +<[email protected]> and copyright 2009 by +Frans Pop <[email protected]>. The author disclaims any responsibility for any mangling of your system, unexpected bandwidth usage bills, meltdown of the Debian mirror network, @@ -1634,9 +1637,13 @@ etc, that this script may cause. See NO WARRANTY section of GPL. =head1 AUTHOR -Current: Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> -Previous authors: Joey Hess <[email protected]> - Joerg Wendland <[email protected]> +Current maintainer: Frans Pop <[email protected]> + +Previous authors: + + Joey Hess <[email protected]> (original author) + Joerg Wendland <[email protected]> + Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> =head1 MOTTO
