Bug#801951: debian/copyright should mention BSD3 license, not PSF

[Bastian Germann]

Am 11.07.21 um 01:28 schrieb Colin Watson:

Thanks for committing a fix for this to git.

Do you need sponsorship help to upload this (if so, I'd be happy to do
it), or is an upload already in progress?


The change needs sponsorship. It is in the Python Team's RFS queue, so please 
go ahead.

Bug#801951: debian/copyright should mention BSD3 license, not PSF

[Colin Watson]

Control: tag -1 pending

On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:48:28 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli  wrote:
> > debian/copyright currently refers to (various incarnations of...) the PSF
> > license, whereas python-dateutil has been relicense under BSD3 a while ago.
> > See http://sources.debian.net/src/python-dateutil/latest/LICENSE/ for
> > reference. debian/copyright should be updated (and can be widely simplified 
> > /
> > shortened) to refer to BSD3.
> 
> Current versions (in buster and upcoming bullseye) are dual-licensed under
> BSD3 and Apache 2. I am raising the severity because this is a long-standing
> policy violation.

Thanks for committing a fix for this to git.

Do you need sponsorship help to upload this (if so, I'd be happy to do
it), or is an upload already in progress?

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)  [cjwat...@debian.org]

Processed: Re: Bug#801951: debian/copyright should mention BSD3 license, not PSF

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Processing control commands:

> tag -1 pending
Bug #801951 [python3-dateutil] d/copyright must contain BSD3 and Apache 2, not 
PSF
Added tag(s) pending.

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