Package: abcde Version: 2.5.3-1 Severity: minor abcde is certainly DFSG-free. However, exact license terms are unclear because of ambiguities.
abcde is licensed under GPL2 or Artistic, choice of user. Additionally, it is placed in the public domain from 2010 on. Two problems: 1) The /usr/share/doc/abcde/copyright file differs from the header lines of the script /usr/bin/abcde itself. Specifically, the contributions that took place after 2010 are missing from /usr/share/doc/abcde/copyright. As these contributions may have an effect on the concrete license terms, this is a bug. 2) The header lines of /usr/bin/abcde state "Copyright for this work is to expire January 1, 2010, after which it shall be public domain." However, the same header lines also contain Copyright (c) stanzas with dates later than 2010. This is a discrepancy. Please resolve the discrepancy by asking the two debian developers who made contributions after 2010 what their intentions were, and clarify the license by either removing the public domain clause or by removing the GPL2/Artistic clause. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bugs-dist
