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.


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