[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#408372: python-dbus: License in sourcecode not clear

[Erich Schubert]

Package: python-dbus
Version: 0.80.1-1
Severity: minor

/usr/share/python-support/python-dbus/dbus/__init__.py
says:
# Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
[... GPL 2+ standard header follows ...]

As you can see, it first says AFL 2.1, but then refers to the GPL, and
two lines of the GPL statement are repeated. This is the case on most of
the source files, apparently.

debian/copyright contains AFL 2.0.

This bug is IMHO not RC, since we're having a valid license in form of the GPL.
Above repetition does probably not have a legal effect, but can be
considered a copy&paste error, with the obvious intend of licensing via
GPL.

Please check if you need to update debian/copyright to AFL 2.1 instead
of AFL 2.0 (are any source files still referencing AFL 2.0?)
and contact upstream about cleaning up the duplicated lines?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages python-dbus depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.71-3       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.7-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  python                      2.4.4-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support              0.5.6        automated rebuilding support for p

Versions of packages python-dbus recommends:
pn  python-gobject | python-gtk   <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information