Debian Bug report logs - #751511
xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright

Package: xfslibs-dev; Maintainer for xfslibs-dev is XFS Development Team <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>; Source for xfslibs-dev is src:xfsprogs (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org>

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:39:02 UTC

Severity: serious

Tags: wheezy-ignore

Done: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, appaji@debian.org, unknown-package@qa.debian.org:
Bug#751511; Package src:xfslibs-dev. (Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:39:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:55:34 +0530
Source: xfslibs-dev
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 4.5

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It looks like the xfslibs-dev package source files are licensed under LGPL
v2.1, however the debian/copyright file indicates that only the libhandle
package is under LGPL and that the rest of the package is licensed under GPL.

Giridhar

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, unknown-package@qa.debian.org:
Bug#751511; Package src:xfslibs-dev. (Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:27:22 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #6 received at 751511@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org>, 751511@bugs.debian.org
Cc: xfslibs-dev@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:24:14 +0300
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Control: reassign -1 xfslibs-dev

On Vi, 13 iun 14, 19:55:34, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Source: xfslibs-dev
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 4.5
> 
> It looks like the xfslibs-dev package source files are licensed under LGPL
> v2.1, however the debian/copyright file indicates that only the libhandle
> package is under LGPL and that the rest of the package is licensed under GPL.
> 
> Giridhar
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 

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Bug reassigned from package 'src:xfslibs-dev' to 'xfslibs-dev'. Request was from Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> to 751511-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:27:22 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Added tag(s) wheezy-ignore. Request was from Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:15:21 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, XFS Development Team <xfs@oss.sgi.com>:
Bug#751511; Package xfslibs-dev. (Sun, 13 Jul 2014 08:57:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to XFS Development Team <xfs@oss.sgi.com>. (Sun, 13 Jul 2014 08:57:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at 751511@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Cc: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org>, 751511@bugs.debian.org, xfslibs-dev@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:33:36 -0700
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 06:24:14PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 xfslibs-dev
> 
> On Vi, 13 iun 14, 19:55:34, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> > Source: xfslibs-dev
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 4.5
> > 
> > It looks like the xfslibs-dev package source files are licensed under LGPL
> > v2.1, however the debian/copyright file indicates that only the libhandle
> > package is under LGPL and that the rest of the package is licensed under GPL.

All the headers in xfslibs-dev are licensed under the LGPL.  The man
pages don't have specific licensing information in the source file nad
thus default to GPL.




Reply sent to Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:09:32 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:09:32 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #20 received at 751511-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
To: 751511-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:08:09 +0100
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As analyzed by Christoph already, d/copyright is actually fine:
libhandle -> LGPL 2.1
remaining-> GPL-2  
(see doc/COPYING)

Therefore closing. 

-- 
tobi	

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Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:25:44 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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