Bug#456439: kildclient: debian/copyright incorrect? Software seems to be GPLv2 *or* *later*
Package: kildclient Version: 2.6.0-1 Severity: normal kildclient's ./debian/copyright says -- Copyright (C) Eduardo M Kalinowski, 2004-2007 Upstream Author: Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. - However as far I can tell this is not correct, the actual copyright statements look like this: * 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 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, * MA 02111-1307, USA. */ Note the or (at your option) any later version. I stumbled upon this since kildclient is one of the packages in debian that links agains either libgnutls-openssl or libgnutls-extra and is according to debian/copyright not compatible with GPLv3. Since the new version of this library is GPLv3 this would make it impossible to continue linking kildclient against he library. Could you please make sure about the actual license? Thanks. On a sidenote *.c is missing the copyright statements, you might want to nudge upstream. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html thanks in advance, cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#456439: kildclient: debian/copyright incorrect? Software seems to be GPLv2 *or* *later*
Andreas Metzler wrote: Package: kildclient Version: 2.6.0-1 Severity: normal kildclient's ./debian/copyright says -- Copyright (C) Eduardo M Kalinowski, 2004-2007 Upstream Author: Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. - However as far I can tell this is not correct, the actual copyright statements look like this: * 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 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, * MA 02111-1307, USA. */ Note the or (at your option) any later version. OK, this is an inconsistency, and will be fixed. I stumbled upon this since kildclient is one of the packages in debian that links agains either libgnutls-openssl or libgnutls-extra and is according to debian/copyright not compatible with GPLv3. Since the new version of this library is GPLv3 this would make it impossible to continue linking kildclient against he library. I didn't understand this part. The copyright for libgnutls13 version 2.0.4-1 (newest version in unstable as of now) says the libgnutls-extra library is released under the GPL version 2 or later; I did not find any specific mention of GPLv3. On a sidenote *.c is missing the copyright statements, you might want to nudge upstream. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html Incidentally I am also upstream, this should also be easy to fix. -- I prefer the blunted cudgels of the followers of the Serpent God. -- Sean Doran the Younger Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#456439: kildclient: debian/copyright incorrect? Software seems to be GPLv2 *or* *later*
On 2007-12-15 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] I stumbled upon this since kildclient is one of the packages in debian that links agains either libgnutls-openssl or libgnutls-extra and is according to debian/copyright not compatible with GPLv3. Since the new version of this library is GPLv3 this would make it impossible to continue linking kildclient against he library. I didn't understand this part. The copyright for libgnutls13 version 2.0.4-1 (newest version in unstable as of now) says the libgnutls-extra library is released under the GPL version 2 or later; I did not find any specific mention of GPLv3. Sorry. Should have written new (not yet uploaded to Debian) versions 2.1.8 and later. Only 2.1.7 is in experimental. http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87fxy5a24x.fsf%40mocca.josefsson.org%3e thanks, cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
