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

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

Le samedi 5 mars 2011 14:10:04, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> Package: cfortran
> Version: 4.4-14
> Severity: serious

I have just sending a mail upstream asking to add a licence text in their header. 

Will wait a week for an answer.

Bastien

> 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.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
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