[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] z-push packaging question - licenses / lintian

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:19:54AM +0100, Roel van Meer wrote:
[..snip..]
> Then how can the original version of this file, which is packaged in
> php-mail, have a BSD-3-clause license in d/copyright? Perhaps the packager
> just cut a corner to get the package to build without errors? Or are there
> possibilities that we haven't seen?

Debian takes licensing very seriously[1] so "cutting corners" to cheat the
DFSG (the lint tool is only the messenger) is not something I've seen in
Debian so far. Check the changelog:

php-mail (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    + Incorporates escapeshellcmd patch.
    + Changed licence to BSD (closes: #332613).
  * Checked for policy 3.8.4, changed section to php.

 -- Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org>  Sun, 09 May 2010 15:28:00 +0200

the source files reflect this too. The bug report has some more details.
So if you forward port to at least this version you're safe.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

[1] not always to everybody's joy