On Mon, Jul 16, 2007, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > The debian/copyright file states the following:
> >
> > | 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
> > | the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.
> >
> > However all files in vcdimager have this mention:
> >
> > | 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
> > | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> > | (at your option) any later version.
> >
> > This is a very important distinction now that GPLv3 is out and is
> > incompatible with GPLv2.
>
> While I agree to fix this (but I will prepare a package for the latest
> libcdio first), why do you think it is serious?
> As far as I un derstand licensing, I am allowed to take some "GPL v2 or
> above" and treat it "at my option" as GPL v2, and then release it as GPL
> v2 only. Am I missing something? Unless so, then the correct severity
> would be wishlist...
I'm not saying a licence violation or anything illegal is occurring,
I am saying that the exact licensing terms in debian/copyright, required
by policy 2.3 ("every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of
its copyright and distribution license"), are misrepresented. Hence the
serious policy violation.
Regards,
--
Sam.
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