Package: id-utils
Version: 4.5-3
Severity: normal

/usr/share/doc/id-utils/copyright claims:

> Copyright:
> 
>       1986-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> License:
> 
>    This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>    (at your option) any later version.

However, the executables actually are under GPL version 3 or later,
and the documentation is under GFDL version 1.3 or later.  The
copyright has also been renewed in 2010.

In /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/id-utils.el and id-utils-4.5/lisp/idutils.el:

> ;; GNU idutils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
> ;; any later version.

(That file also contains a misleading comment about PO files.)

In id-utils-4.5/src/mkid.c:

>    Copyright (C) 1986, 1995-1996, 1999, 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation,
>    Inc.
...
>    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
>    any later version.

In /usr/share/info/idutils.info.gz and id-utils-4.5/doc/idutils.info:

>    Copyright (C) 1996, 1999-2000, 2008-2010 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> 
>      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
>      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
>      Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
>      Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts
>      being "A GNU Manual", and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
>      below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
>      "GNU Free Documentation License" in the Emacs manual.
> 
>      (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and
>      modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software.  Copies published by
>      the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development."
> 
>      This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU
>      Free Documentation License.  If you want to distribute this
>      document separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a
>      copy of the license to the document, as described in section 6 of
>      the license.

I hoped the license change would have been documented in NEWS and
ChangeLog, but apparently not.  mkid --version doesn't show it either.

Please update the GPL version number and copyright years in
debian/copyright, and add a note about GFDL.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages id-utils depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.16.0.3      
ii  install-info  4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii  libc6         2.13-21       

id-utils recommends no packages.

id-utils suggests no packages.

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