Your message dated Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:19:05 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#616550: right to redistribute the cfortran
has caused the Debian Bug report #616550,
regarding cfortran: fake license text in debian/copyright
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Package: cfortran
Version: 4.4-14
Severity: serious
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
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--- Begin Message ---
Thanks Burkhard
Now close the bug
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> With this email, I
> Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow <[email protected]> give the debian project
> the right to redistribute the cfortran program program under
> the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version.
>
> This program 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
>
> Moreover I agree about adding these copyright header to the cfortran.h file
>
>
>
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