Hi!
I'm facing a small problem with my package logwatch[0]. Logwatch's licensing
file (License) [1] doesn't match the reality in two ways:
1) Logwatch consists of many perl scripts, many of them not written by the
maintainer of logwatch (Kirk Bauer), but by various contributors (including
me). There's no indication anyone transferred the copyright to Kirk, but the
licensing file only says (c) Kirk Bauer.
2) Logwatch is distributed under the X11 License. Some scripts are
distributed under two different licenses: One is Public Domain which is of
course compatible to X11, and one is the GPL which is not X11 compatible (of
course the other direction is compatible).
I think for 1) it should be enough to say
(c) Kirk Bauer and (others|contributors).
?
I can think of these solutions for 2:
- Distribute the debianized version under GPL.
- Change the copyright file to say that most of logwatch is distributed
under X11, but some parts are GPL.
Can anyone tell me, what's the best way to handle this situation?
Willi
[0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/logwatch.html
[1] debian/copyright with the License file:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/logwatch/logwatch_5.1-5/copyright
