Package: libbz2-1.0
Version: 1.0.5-6
Severity: minor

The copyright file for libbz2 states:

> This package is Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Philippe Troin
> <p...@fifi.org> and Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Anibal Monsalve Salazar.
> It is licensed under the GNU General Public License which can be
> found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

This can be misinterpreted to read that the library itself is under the
GPL - an example of such confusion can be found at
http://stackoverflow.com/q/5446902/36723 . The wording here should be
updated to be more clear; for example:

> The debian packaging scripts and metadata for this library are
> licensed under the GNU General Public License, which can be found in
> /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.4-x86_64-linode16 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libbz2-1.0 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

libbz2-1.0 recommends no packages.

libbz2-1.0 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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