[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#723126: libvxl1-dev: Incomplete copyright file

Teemu Ikonen tpikonen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 18:04:41 UTC 2013


Package: libvxl1-dev
Version: 1.14.0-18
Severity: serious
Justification: policy 2.3, 4.5

VXL contains, among others, a copy of the RPLY library, which has this
Copyright and license, at vxl/v3p/rply/LICENSE:

....

RPly 1.01 license
Copyright <A9> 2003-2005 Diego Nehab.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

....

This information is not present in the debian/copyright file.

Also, debian/copyright claims to be conforming to the 1.0 machine
readable copyright format, but it contains license keywords like
"BSD (2 clause)", which are not in the list of standard short names (the
example given should read "BSD-2-clause").

Best,
Teemu



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