On 14 August 2025 at 16:11, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: | Package: python3-rpy2 | Version: 3.5.17-2 | Severity: serious
Well ... | | d/copyright says this is License: MPL | GPL | LGPL, but it has actually | been GPL-2+ only since 2014: | | https://github.com/rpy2/rpy2/commit/3be5fdb2dddbf2afa7de8210feec59099056bba4 Please see https://github.com/rpy2/rpy2#license at the very bottom of the README.md -- it is 'GPL-2 or later' just like R. (Which drives the FSF crazy, and at useR! in DC many moons ago invited speaker RMS almost made a scene over it ... Anyway.) | (This bug is RC because https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt | requires a correct d/copyright. Its practical impact may be near-zero Yep :) | because rpy2 Depends on R itself (i.e. r-base-core), which has always | been GPL-2+ and is correctly marked as such.) R is actually murky as it also has a few header files explicitly marked LGPL. But the core is 'GPL-2 || GPL-3' as in 'GPL-2 or greater' and we so far only have GPL-3. Please just edit away at debian/copyright as you see fit. It is also likely still the old non-standardized format. It's good to have a fresh set of eyes on things. Cheers, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
