Package: fbpanel Version: 7.0-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.5
Hello, many thanks for fixing the recently reopened bug #585795 so quickly! I was taking a look at the debian/copyright file [1] and I noticed that the license for my two icons is not correctly described. [1] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fbpanel/copyright-7.0-2 The debian/copyright file of fbpanel/7.0-2 states: Files: debian/terminal_color.svg debian/terminal_sketch.svg Copyright: 2011-2012 Francesco Poli License: GPL-2 which is correct (well, almost: I rediscovered that the actual copyright year is 2010, sorry for stating otherwise previously...), but then the stanza for GPL-2 says "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.", which is *not* correct! It would be OK for GPL-2+, but I only licensed the two icons under GPL-2 (that is to say, version 2 *only*!). The correct license information should be: Files: debian/terminal_color.svg debian/terminal_sketch.svg Copyright: 2010 Francesco Poli License: GPL-2 and License: GPL-2 This work 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; version 2 dated June, 1991. . This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Comment: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. Moreover, and even *more importantly*, I took a look a the fbpanel/7.0-2 source tree. I cannot find any indication that fbpanel is actually under GPL-2 or GPL-2+ !!!! There are a number of files with no embedded licensing information and a general COPYING file which, I assume, describes the copying conditions for those files. This COPYING file is almost identical to the Expat license [2] (it only misses an "OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS" in the disclaimer of warranty). [2] http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt There are other files with different copyright holders, which embed licensing information and seem to be licensed under LGPL-2+ ... Maybe other files are under different (hopefully compatible!) licenses. Please review the licensing status of the entire source tree and document it properly in the debian/copyright file! Thanks for your time. Bye!
