On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: pulseaudio > Version: 10.0-1 > Severity: serious > > the copyright file has this paragraph: > > |Files: src/utils/qpaeq > |Copyright: 2009 Jason Newton <nev...@gmail.com> > |License: AGPL-3+ > | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify > | it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as > | published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 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 Affero General Public License for more details. > | . > | On Debian systems, the complete text of the AGPL 3 can be found in > | /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/AGPL > > > This is not acceptable for our current policy for the same points: > > * said file /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/AGPL is missing, it appears to be > compressed instead > * so /use/share/doc/pulseaudio/AGPL.gz iscompressed, and quoting the > policy "This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link"
Indeed, it was compressed by dh_compress. I need to add an exclusion > * there are binaries shipped by src:pulseaudio which do not depend on > the pulseaudio binary package, thus totally missing the AGPL-3 text All packages ship AGPL file, but indeed the reference is to the pulseaudio package directory. Will fix. > * policy does not consider files different than > /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright to be possible, except for a few cases > explicitly listed there (where this is not one of those) `grep usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/*/copyright` in my system lists several files making references to copyright in other files. Policy might need to be updated. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
