On February 26, 2015 7:17:01 PM EST, Jose Luis Rivero 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello Scott:
>
>Thanks for reviewing the upload. Only one question inline while I fix
>the rest of the problems and back to upload a new version:
>
>On 02/26/2015 07:00 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I have to reject your package due to a number of
>issues in
>> debian/copyright.  I did not check anything else, but I think this is
>a
>> comprehensive list of debian/copyright issues.
>> 
>> Major issues (reject reasons)
>> 
>> cmake/Ronn2Man.cmake
>> 
>> # Based on work of Emmanuel Roullit <[email protected]>
>> # Copyright 2009, 2012 Emmanuel Roullit.
>> # Subject to the GPL, version 2.
>> 
>> Not listed in debian/copyright.
>> No copy of the GPL version 2 provided in the source
>> 
>
>What do you mean by "No copy of the GPL version 2 provided in the
>source"? I've never face this problem before.

The source tarballs has to be Free and distributable on it's own, which means a 
full copy of the licenses used must be present. The contents of 
debian/copyright and the pointer to common-licenses aren't sufficient because 
they aren't part of the tarball.

When you repack the tarballs which AIUI you're already doing) add a copy of GPL 
v2.  That's all. You should ask upstream to do the same for the next upload. 

Scott K


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