Package: base-files Version: 7.5 Severity: important Dear Santiago,
neither inside /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic nor in /usr/share/doc/base-files/README nor in /usr/share/doc/base-files/changelog.gz is declared (or even hinted) which version or variant of "The Artistic License" is shipped in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic. According to https://spdx.org/licenses/ there are at least five registered versions and variants of the Artistic License: * Artistic License 1.0 * Artistic License 1.0 (Perl) * Artistic License 1.0 w/clause 8 * Artistic License 2.0 * Clarified Artistic License According to "dwdiff -c", our /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic is actually the "Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)" license. Please clearly state inside the file but also in the README which version and variant of the Artistic License is shipped with the package. A bit of background about some of the variants and versions is at http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0 as well as at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental'), (109, 'buildd-unstable'), (109, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
