Bug#777583: incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools violates Debian policy
Control: serverity -1 serious Hi, the copyright information which needs to be verbatim includes also the licenese grant. Therfore is your d/copyright not verbatim as per policy... So this is RC. -- tobi
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:21:32 -0500 Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org wrote: retitle 777583 incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools violates Debian policy severity 777583 serious thanks Giuseppe Iuculano iucul...@debian.org writes: The README file says: == COPYING == Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen smartmontools-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net Copyright (C) 2004-14 Christian Franke smartmontools-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net 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, or (at your option) any later version. And in contrast, debian/copyright has this: License: You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. The full text of this license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 Section 12.5 of Debian policy states: Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. Now, compare the README to debian/copyright. Does that look like a verbatim copy to you? If so, perhaps you should look up verbatim in a dictionary, e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbatim There seems to be no problem: # apt-get source smartmontools # diff smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/COPYING /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 outputs no difference. The upstream copyright and the full license referenced are **exactly the same**. Verbatim. Word for word. -- Cameron Norman
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
retitle 777583 incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools violates Debian policy severity 777583 serious thanks Giuseppe Iuculano iucul...@debian.org writes: The README file says: == COPYING == Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen smartmontools-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net Copyright (C) 2004-14 Christian Franke smartmontools-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net 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, or (at your option) any later version. And in contrast, debian/copyright has this: License: You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. The full text of this license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 Section 12.5 of Debian policy states: Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. Now, compare the README to debian/copyright. Does that look like a verbatim copy to you? If so, perhaps you should look up verbatim in a dictionary, e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbatim Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally. I must say, I find your responses to this clear violation of Debian policy quite disconcerting, especially given how easy it would be to fix the problem. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
retitle -1 debian/copyright for smartmontools is too restrictive severity -1 wishlist Il 14/02/2015 06:57, Mark H Weaver ha scritto: Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. Note the word verbatim. Therefore, smartmontools clearly violates a must directive of Debian policy, and so this bug should have severity serious as per https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities. The README file says: == COPYING == Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen smartmontools-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net Copyright (C) 2004-14 Christian Franke smartmontools-supp...@lists.sourceforge.net 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, or (at your option) any later version. Cheers, Giuseppe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
retitle 777583 incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools violates Debian policy severity 777583 serious thanks David Prévot taf...@debian.org writes: 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). Section 12.5 of Debian policy states: Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. Note the word verbatim. Therefore, smartmontools clearly violates a must directive of Debian policy, and so this bug should have severity serious as per https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities. Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
Package: smartmontools Version: 6.3+svn4002-2+b2 Followup-For: Bug #777583 Attached find a debdiff and a git-diff to add the or (at your option) any later version clause to debian/copyright. The debdiff is created using HEAD in git as the original package (so probably NOT the version that is currently in testing) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii init-system-helpers 1.22 ii libc62.19-13 ii libcap-ng0 0.7.4-2 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 Versions of packages smartmontools recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-1 Versions of packages smartmontools suggests: pn gsmartcontrol none pn smart-notifier none -- no debconf information diff -Nru smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/changelog smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/changelog --- smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/changelog 2015-02-12 17:12:37.0 +0100 +++ smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/changelog 2015-02-12 17:52:38.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +smartmontools (6.3+svn4002-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + [ Giuseppe Iuculano ] + * Correct maintscript syntax (Closes: #766178) + + [ IOhannes m zmölnig ] + * Fix license: it's really GPL-2+ (Closes: #777583) + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano iucul...@debian.org Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:52:25 +0100 + smartmontools (6.3+svn4002-1) unstable; urgency=low * [03a62f0] Set EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/smartmontools in smartd.service diff -Nru smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/copyright smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/copyright --- smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/copyright 2015-02-12 17:48:31.0 +0100 +++ smartmontools-6.3+svn4002/debian/copyright 2015-02-12 17:50:15.0 +0100 @@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ License: You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General -Public License Version 2. The full text of this license can be found in the -file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 +Public License Version 2, or (at your option) any later version. The full text +of this license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 From 40173c4dde3bf76e5bf801c9df1c8cffea11d9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?IOhannes=20m=20zm=C3=B6lnig?= zmoel...@umlautq.umlaeute.mur.at Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:15:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix license: it's really GPL-2+ (Closes: #777583) --- debian/copyright | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index 0803ab3..22d8118 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ Copyright: License: You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General -Public License Version 2. The full text of this license can be found in the -file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 +Public License Version 2, or (at your option) any later version. The full text +of this license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 -- 2.1.4
Bug#777583: Incorrect debian/copyright for smartmontools
Package: smartmontools Version: 6.3+svn4002-2+b2 Severity: serious 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
