Bug#617688: b43-fwcutter: debian/copyright lists incorrect license, missing copyright holders

2011-03-10 Thread Mike O'Connor
Source: b43-fwcutter Version: 1:013-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 debian/copyright states that this package is GPL, however, it appears to have a 2 clause BSD license, and some code in the public domain. The BSD license requires that copyright holders be listed, and they are not

Bug#497703: python-happydoc: Incomplete debian/copyright

2008-09-03 Thread Mike O'Connor
Package: python-happydoc Version: 2.1-6 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 many of the files distributed in the python-happydoc package have Copyright statements in them which aren't reflected in /usr/share/doc/python-happydoc/copyright. For example: /usr/share/pyshared/happydoclib/doc

Bug#497703: more info

2008-09-04 Thread Mike O'Connor
Upon closer inspection, it looks like the problem is bigger than just an incomplete copyright file. Several of the files, for example, happydoclib/formatter/xmlformatterbase.py contain the statments: # This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it # under certain conditions. For d

Bug#444718: (no subject)

2007-11-17 Thread Mike O'Connor
retitle 444718 RM: sope -- RoQA; NPOASR; RC-Buggy reassign 444718 ftp.debian.org severity 444718 normal thanks sope was never released upstream. It is currently buggy, unmaintained, and has never been part of a stable release. I think it therefore makes a good candidate for removal. thanks, ste