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

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Feb 23 08:02:16 UTC 2006


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.

Regards,
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