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and subject line Bug#446973: fixed in lunar-applet 1.6-2
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Package: lunar-applet
Version: 1.6-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3, I suppose
Lunar-applet is apparently a derivative work of the clock applet in
gnome-panel. The gnome-panel source has FSF as the copyright owner,
with many authors. However, lunar-applet's packaging documentation
/usr/share/doc/lunar-applet/copyright doesn't mention this at all.
(The upstream README mentions this, but it's in Chinese. Reading the
source makes this obvious, though, as many file in src/ still keeps the
original copyright header from gnome-panel.)
If it's only missing upstream author information, this bug is probably
not "serious" severity. After all, both lunar-applet and the clock
applet code are licensed under GPL v2 or later.
However, on closer inspection, I found the copyright/licensing situation
of lunar-applet very messy:
For example, the src/lunar.c is a modified version of the
applets/clock/clock.c file in gnome-panel, but the header in lunar.c
doesn't say anything about the modification, which probably violates
clause 2(a) of GPL v2.
Now worse, the file gtkchinesecalendar/gtkchinesecalendar.h claims LGPL
v2 license (which by itself needs clarification in Debian's copyright
file), but also says it contains code from lunar package with "Copyright
(C) 1988,1989,1991,1992 Fung F. Lee and Ricky Yeung", but lunar is GPL
v2 or later. I'm not sure if it's possible to mix GPL and LGPL code in
one file or one project, but even if it's okay, it should at least be
clearly noted.
And then things gets ugly -- the file gtkchinesecalendar/tables.h looks
like derivative work of lunar code, but the copyright and licensing
notice at the top of the file is completely removed, and the file in
lunar-applet doesn't have any copyright/licensing information.
In summary, I find the copyright and licensing information of
lunar-applet package very incomplete and confusing. Some of the code
there probably even violates GPL/LGPL. I'm disappointed to see the
maintainers doing a poor work on copyright/license auditing, and I'm
surprised that this passed through FTP master's inspection.
Nevertheless, I hope this bug can cause closer inspection of the whole
codebase of lunar-applet.
Ming
2007.10.16
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Source: lunar-applet
Source-Version: 1.6-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lunar-applet, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lunar-applet_1.6-2.diff.gz
to pool/main/l/lunar-applet/lunar-applet_1.6-2.diff.gz
lunar-applet_1.6-2.dsc
to pool/main/l/lunar-applet/lunar-applet_1.6-2.dsc
lunar-applet_1.6-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/l/lunar-applet/lunar-applet_1.6-2_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:20:57 +0800
Source: lunar-applet
Binary: lunar-applet
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.6-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
lunar-applet - GNOME Clock applet with added Chinese lunar calendar support
Closes: 446973
Changes:
lunar-applet (1.6-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* debian/control:
- rename XS-Vcs-* fields to Vcs-* fields.
- add Homepage field.
- bump standard version to 3.7.3, no change needed.
* move version control system to Chinese team's repos:
- debian/control: update Vcs-* fields url.
* debian/copyright: clear copyright information. (Closes: #446973)
* debian/rules: add "-Wl,--as-needed" to LDFLAGS.
Files:
0bdea635f4f55043ddeeab043d2b2a9f 933 gnome optional lunar-applet_1.6-2.dsc
031bc8201a59b7f0d9cfd86f709689f1 2158 gnome optional lunar-applet_1.6-2.diff.gz
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lunar-applet_1.6-2_i386.deb
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