Le samedi 5 mars 2011 14:10:04, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > Package: cfortran > Version: 4.4-14 > Severity: serious
I have just sending a mail upstream asking to add a licence text in their header. Will wait a week for an answer. Bastien > cfortran copyright's file contain the following text: > | Copyright (C) 1990-2003 Burkhard Burow. > | > | cfortran is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > | modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public > | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either > | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > | > | cfortran is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU > | Library General Public License for more details. > | > | You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public > | License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software > | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 > | USA > | > | On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General Public > | License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2'. > > This text looks like a verbatim copy of a header, however as explained > later in this same file, the author only allow the LGPL through an > email. You are not the author of the software, you don't have the right > to write such a header. The license here is the mail itself. > > More importantly, this fake license in debian/copyright allows to > redistribute cfortran in *any later version* of the LGPL. This is not > something allowed by the author. At the time of the mail, only version > 2.0 of the license was available, so there is no doubt it was referring > to this version. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 6.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > cfortran depends on no packages. > > Versions of packages cfortran recommends: > ii bcc [c-compiler] 0.16.17-3.1 16-bit x86 C compiler > ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.4.5-2 The GNU C compiler > ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.5-4 The GNU C compiler > ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.5-13 The GNU C compiler > ii gcc-4.5 [c-compiler] 4.5.2-4 The GNU C compiler > ii gfortran [fortran-compiler] 4:4.4.5-2 The GNU Fortran 95 compiler > > cfortran suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- > debian-science-maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
