Bug#876733: jeuclid: Unclear licensing

Julian Andres Klode jak at debian.org
Thu Oct 26 00:21:37 UTC 2017


On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:16:37AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 
> Le 25/09/2017 à 13:23, Julian Andres Klode a écrit :
> > Source: jeuclid
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > The package mostly and debian/copyright state it is licensed under the Apache 2.0
> > license, but NOTICE contains different license terms, presumably Apache 1.0. It's
> > unclear how they interact.
> >
> > The Apache 2 also states that " The contents of the NOTICE file are for informational
> > purposes only and do not modify the License." - but the NOTICE file containing
> > different license terms contradicts with that, so I'm not sure if that is even
> > valid.
> 
> Do you have any recommendations on what we should do?
> 
> The last update from upstream is 2012 ... :/

I don't really care; I'd probably just ignore it, but that's for
the release team to decide. I just saw this while looking at a random
package, I don't have any particular interest in it.

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