Comments regarding geos_3.7.2-1~exp1_amd64.changes

[Thorsten Alteholz]

Hi Bas,

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 7/22/19 10:43 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>>   d/copyright implies that upstream developers hold copyright on debian/
>>   but there is no indication this is true.
>
> The copyright file never documented copyright for debian/, we can add
> some based on the git log but that will be accurate.

that is fine, but probably you meant the opposite. Nevertheless these 
information should be added as best as possible.

>>  How do we know the project is LGPL-2.1+ rather than just LGPL-2.1?
>>  E.g. capi/geos_c.cpp suggests it's LGPL-2.1 alone.
>
> Because the COPYING file is the text of LGPL-2.1+, it was not modified
> to remove the the "or later" mentions.

Oh, no, COPYING only contains the LGPL-2.1 license text. The example at 
the end is about LGPL-2.1+, but that is totally unrelated to the license.
Some lines before it says: "END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS".

   Thorsten