Bug#354024: gnome-vfs2 reports wrong copyright/license information

[Josselin Mouette]

forwarded 354024 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332301
found 354024 2.8.4-4
found 354024 2.12.2-5
found 354024 2.14.0-1
thanks

Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 09:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le mercredi 22 février 2006 à 13:30 -0500, Stephen Depooter a écrit :
> > Package: gnome-vfs2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 2.3
> > 
> > gnome-vfs2 reports in it's debian/copyright file that is is licensed
> > under LGPL.  At least one file modules/smd-method.c is licenssed under
> > GPL only, presumably due to linking against libsmbclient which is GPL
> > only.
> 
> Indeed. This isn't a problem for the SMB method as it is only a plugin,
> but it requires clarification in the copyright. However, there seems to
> be GPL code in the daemon as well. I'll ask upstream about that.

For the record, the library is entirely LGPL, except for one file: 
libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-mime-monitor.c
Upstream is trying to relicense this file as soon as possible but some
copyright holders are currently unreachable.

The daemon and some plugins are licensed under the GPL.

Regards,
-- 
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