retitle 594519 multiple copyright problems make software non-redistributable as currently packaged thanks
I encouraged the submitter to submit this bug after he raised concerns on IRC about some of software in this package. I thought that I'd better take a closer look at this source myself, and I immediately found multiple problems related to the licenses/copyrights of this software package. The problem originally reported by the submitter appears to be a valid concern for upstream. There are also errors in the debian/copyright file which should be addressed by the maintainers with the next upload. I found many instances where copyright holders were missing from debian/copyright when the BSD like license requires that they be present. There are multiple flavors of the BSD license which should be explicitly present in debian/copyright. There were files which were GPL v2 only and files which were GPL v3 only where debian/copyright simply said "GPL". I haven't closely enough to determine if software from these two incompatible licenses is beiong used in such a way as to produce non-redistributable binaries. I don't have time to make a full source code audit of this source package immediately, but one needs to be done. Thanks, stew
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