Comments regarding freehep-swing_2.0.3-1_amd64.changes

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Did you receive my last email concerning freehep-swing (quoted below)? I
didn't receive any answer, is this because you have no time for it or
because there were technical problems with email?

Giovanni.

Giovanni Mascellani ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> (Cc:-ing Gabriele Giacone, comaintainer with me)
> 
> Barry deFreese ha scritto:
>> Hello maintainer,
>>
>> The orig.tar.gz for FreeHEP swing doesn't seem to carry a LICENSE or COPYING file and I cannot find any mention of the GPL in any headers.  Where are you getting that it is licensed under the LGPL 2.1?
> 
> Here is the license statement:
> 
> http://java.freehep.org/license.html
> 
> And here the team:
> 
> http://java.freehep.org/team-list.html
> 
> I've contacted upstream authors (Mark Donszelmann) about the fact that
> license pages talks about LGPL-2.1 and contains LGPL-3. He answered me
> that the whole freehep is under LGPL-2.1 and that he would had updated
> the license page (but he didn't).
> 
>> Also, you are missing at least a couple of copyright holders in debian/copyright.  CERN and SLAC.
> 
> Should I cite them? I cited the "real" authors (working for CERN or SLAC
> or other institutions), and nothing tells me that these institutions
> have a share on the copyright. Should I write upstream to clarify this?
> 
> Other similar packages freehep-{chartableconverter-plugin,util,io} have
> already been accepted by FTP masters and are in the database. They're in
> a situation almost identical to this.
> 
> Thank you, Giovanni.


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Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani at poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Pisa, Italy

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