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* Re: Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
       [not found] <20140613142534.8854.10300.reportbug@sibsagar.btc.netapp.com>
@ 2014-06-13 15:24 ` Andrei POPESCU
  2014-07-13  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrei POPESCU @ 2014-06-13 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag, 751511; +Cc: xfslibs-dev


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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.
> 
> Giridhar
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 

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* Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright
  2014-06-13 15:24 ` Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright Andrei POPESCU
@ 2014-07-13  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2014-07-13  8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrei POPESCU; +Cc: 751511, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag, xfslibs-dev

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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