Debian NEW review note for pocketsphinx 5.0.4-1

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Sat Feb 14 20:00:20 GMT 2026


Hello,

mechtilde at debian.org, le sam. 14 févr. 2026 19:57:01 +0000, a ecrit:
> A reviewer has shared a note regarding pocketsphinx 5.0.4-1:
> 
>  The upstream source is licensed under BSD-2-clause. However, the 
>  patches in debian/patches/ are licensed under GPL-2+. Therefore, 
>  the combined work and the resulting binary packages are distributed 
>  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
>  the Free Software Foundation, version 2 or later.
> 
> You can add it in debian/copyright line 4 as a Comment.

Some of these patches are actually from upstream, and others are from
Gabor, and I believe Gabor meant them to be BSD-2 as well, so we'd
rather fix debian/copyright accordingly.

Thanks for reviewing,
Samuel



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