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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Cc: 751511@bugs.debian.org, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org>,
	xfslibs-dev@packages.debian.org
Subject: Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:33:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140713083336.GA24104@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140613152414.GF2840@sid.nuvreauspam>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 06:24:14PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 xfslibs-dev
> 
> On Vi, 13 iun 14, 19:55:34, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> > Source: xfslibs-dev
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 4.5
> > 
> > It looks like the xfslibs-dev package source files are licensed under LGPL
> > v2.1, however the debian/copyright file indicates that only the libhandle
> > package is under LGPL and that the rest of the package is licensed under GPL.

All the headers in xfslibs-dev are licensed under the LGPL.  The man
pages don't have specific licensing information in the source file nad
thus default to GPL.

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-13  8:57 UTC|newest]

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2014-06-13 15:24 ` Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright Andrei POPESCU
2014-07-13  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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