Package: wcalc Version: 2.3-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 The debian/copyright file from the package says:
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 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. but the COPYRIGHT file from upstream says: All code in the Wcalc distribution which is Copyright Kyle Wheeler or which references this COPYRIGHT file is licensed under the GPL version 2 included below. an the README file says: Wcalc is made available under the GNU Public License (GPL), version 2. The full text of the License is in the file titled COPYING as distributed with the source, or is available here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html So, Wcalc seems to be distributed under GPLv2, not GPLv2+ as debian/copyright says. Moreover, wcalc.1 says: COPYRIGHT wcalc is Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Kyle Wheeler. It is freely distributed, and can be modified and used freely for any purpose, as long as a copy of the modification is sent to Kyle Wheeler at [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK, the "as long as a copy of the modification..." is incompatible with the GPL (all versions). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wcalc depends on: ii libc6 2.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-5 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libmpfr1ldbl 2.3.0~rc1.dfsg.1-1 multiple precision floating-point ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries wcalc recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
