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

[Roel van Meer]

Guido Günther writes:

> ...
> 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.

Z-push already uses this version.  The source files of php-mail reflect the  
license change, *except* one of them (Mail-1.2.0/Mail/sendmail.php) which  
still mentions the PHP 2.02 license.  This is the file (one of the files)  
that lintian currently complains about with the z-push package.  So,  
technically, the contents of d/copyright of the php-mail package are  
incorrect.

By now I am nitpicking :)  Let's just play by the rules, and I'll talk to  
upstream about a way to resolve this.  We have to do so for the other files  
anyway.

Thanks,

Roel