[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#594519: More info

[Mike O'Connor]

retitle 594519 multiple copyright problems make software non-redistributable as currently packaged
thanks

I encouraged the submitter to submit this bug after he raised concerns
on IRC about some of software in this package.  I thought that I'd
better take a closer look at this source myself, and I immediately found
multiple problems related to the licenses/copyrights of this software
package.  The problem originally reported by the submitter appears to be
a valid concern for upstream.  There are also errors in the
debian/copyright file which should be addressed by the maintainers with
the next upload.  I found many instances where copyright holders were
missing from debian/copyright when the BSD like license requires that
they be present.  There are multiple flavors of the BSD license which
should be explicitly present in debian/copyright.  There were files
which were GPL v2 only and files which were GPL v3 only where
debian/copyright simply said "GPL".  I haven't closely enough to
determine if software from these two incompatible licenses is beiong
used in such a way as to produce non-redistributable binaries.

I don't have time to make a full source code audit of this source
package immediately, but one needs to be done.

Thanks,
stew
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