retitle -1 debian/copyright for smartmontools is too restrictive
severity -1 wishlist

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:30:33AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Package: smartmontools

> debian/copyright claims that smartmontools is distributed under GPLv2,
> but the copyright notices in its source files include the "or (at your
> option) any later version" language.

In that case, the Debian package “just” claims a more restrictive term
of use than it actually is, but it is not wrong either (GPL-2 is
included in GPL-2+, it’s as if the maintainer decided on the option).

Regards

David

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