Comments regarding freehep-swing_2.0.3-1_amd64.changes

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Hi,

(Cc:-ing Gabriele Giacone, comaintainer with me)

Barry deFreese ha scritto:
> Hello maintainer,
> 
> The orig.tar.gz for FreeHEP swing doesn't seem to carry a LICENSE or COPYING file and I cannot find any mention of the GPL in any headers.  Where are you getting that it is licensed under the LGPL 2.1?

Here is the license statement:

http://java.freehep.org/license.html

And here the team:

http://java.freehep.org/team-list.html

I've contacted upstream authors (Mark Donszelmann) about the fact that
license pages talks about LGPL-2.1 and contains LGPL-3. He answered me
that the whole freehep is under LGPL-2.1 and that he would had updated
the license page (but he didn't).

> Also, you are missing at least a couple of copyright holders in debian/copyright.  CERN and SLAC.

Should I cite them? I cited the "real" authors (working for CERN or SLAC
or other institutions), and nothing tells me that these institutions
have a share on the copyright. Should I write upstream to clarify this?

Other similar packages freehep-{chartableconverter-plugin,util,io} have
already been accepted by FTP masters and are in the database. They're in
a situation almost identical to this.

Thank you, Giovanni.
-- 
Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani at poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Pisa, Italy

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