Bug#592570: python-gobject: copyright file misses distribution license of some files

Mike O'Connor stew at vireo.org
Wed Aug 11 03:04:01 UTC 2010


Package: python-gobject
Version: 2.21.4-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.5

Version 2.22.4 included the pygi sources.  Some files from that source contain distribution licenses not mentioned in debian/copyright.

>From the pygi source packages's copyright file:
Licence: (gi/pygi-foreign-cairo.c, gi/pygi-foreign-cairo.h,
          gi/pygi-foreign.c, gi/pygi-foreign.h)

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
    of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
    deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
    rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
    sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
    furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
   
    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
    all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
   
    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
    AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
    IN THE SOFTWARE.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-gobject depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-2    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libffi5                      3.0.9-2     Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libgirepository1.0-0         0.6.14-1+b1 Library for handling GObject intro
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.1-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  python                       2.6.5-8     interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-support               1.0.9       automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages python-gobject recommends:
ii  python-gobject-cairo          2.21.4-1   Python Cairo bindings for the GObj

Versions of packages python-gobject suggests:
pn  python-gobject-dbg            <none>     (no description available)

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