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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.94-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
The debian/copyright file as shipped with coreutils is incomplete. It
especially fails to mention the fact the coreutils infopages are not
licensed under the GPL, but under the GFDL (no invariant sections). I
did some grepping for "copyright" in the sources; here's a suggested
addition for debian/copyright file based on that:
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Authors
=======
See the file AUTHORS.
Copyright Holders and License
=============================
lib/fts.c
---------
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License [...]
/*-
* Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
* may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
* without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
* DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
* HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
lib/fts_.h
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Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License [...]
/*
* Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
* may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
* without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
* DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
* HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
m4/autobuild.m4
---------------
# Copyright (C) 2004 Simon Josefsson
#
# This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
# General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General
# Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
# that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under
# the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
#
# This file can can be used in projects which are not available under
# the GNU General Public License or the GNU Library General Public
# License but which still want to provide support for Autobuild.
src/cut.c
---------
Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1984 David M. Ihnat
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License [...]
src/dircolors.c
---------------
Copyright (C) 1996-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 H. Peter Anvin
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License [...]
src/paste.c
-----------
Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1984 David M. Ihnat
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License [...]
src/shred.c
-----------
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 Colin Plumb.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License [...]
doc/coreutils.texi (The GNU Coreutils Manual)
---------------------------------------------
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
Free Documentation License''.
all other files
---------------
Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This package 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 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This package 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
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
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Thanks a lot for maintaining the Debian coreutils package!
Bye,
Joost
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.35-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libselinux1 1.28-4 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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