Bug#616550: cfortran: fake license text in debian/copyright

[Aurelien Jarno]

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.

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