Package: xboard Version: 4.8~git20140119-1 Severity: normal While looking at how xboard handled the DEC license issue for shogivar, which uses code from XBoard, I noticed the following problem:
The copyright-format spec says "The last paragraph that matches a particular file applies to it.", but the XBoard copyright file first declares all files GPL-3+, and then declares all files as exception using the DEC license, so strictly speaking that renders the initial GPL3+ stance dead code. Thorsten Alteholz wrote about shogivar: > parts of those files are licensed under the DEC license and cannot > be relicensed just by declaring that the whole file is now > GPLv3. The old license is still valid but you don't have to know > what parts are coverd by it. Those who want to use the parts under > the permissive license have to figure this out. So, just name the > License: DECandGPL (or whatever you like) and copy the text from the > file header (including a pointer to the GPL-file in Debian). -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xboard depends on: ii libc6 2.19-11 ii libcairo2 1.12.16-5 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.8-1+b1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.0-2 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1 ii librsvg2-2 2.40.4-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.12-2 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1 Versions of packages xboard recommends: ii fairymax 4.8t-1 ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3 ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.3 Versions of packages xboard suggests: ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 312-1 -- 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
