Quoting Santiago Vila (2017-10-22 11:41:46) > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 09:29:16AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> unzip.c contains the following notice: >> >> Copyright on recmatch() from Zip's util.c (although recmatch() was almost >> certainly written by Mark Adler...ask me how I can tell :-) ): > > Note: This is match.c, not unzip.c. > > The current copyright and license for unzip.c is at the top: > > Copyright (c) 1990-2005 Info-ZIP. All rights reserved. > > See the accompanying file LICENSE, version 2000-Apr-09 or later > (the contents of which are also included in unzip.h) for terms of use. > If, for some reason, all these files are missing, the Info-ZIP license > also may be found at: ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/license.html > > which of course is DFSG-free. > > What you quoted is the old copyright recmatch() had before it was taken > from the old util.c and before it was relicensed. > > The copy of recmtach in the unzip package is under Info-Zip license. > > This has been reported before. Please read my reply to the old bug report: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834195#10
Oh. Sorry for not investigating better before reporting. > So, unless you guys can show that the relicense did not take place, > or that it was made without the original author's permission, > this is again a non-bug. No, I agree there is no bug here. You might consider explicitly mention above clarification in debian/copyright, since evidently I am not alone in (wrongly!) stumbling on that confusing really-a-license-but-obsolete. But I fully understand if you feel that is superfluous (especially since I notice that you did not find it relevant to use machine-readable copyright file format). Regards, and sorry again for the hassle. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
