Bug#755794: missing license in debian/copyright

tony mancill tmancill at debian.org
Fri Jul 25 04:48:49 UTC 2014


On 07/23/2014 07:21 AM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, tony mancill wrote:
>> I'm confused by this bug report.  There are 391 .png files in the source
>> package, and 61 alone in the ./src/ tree, and debian/copyright documents
>> all of these files as having the Apache-2.0 license:
> 
> yep, but this seems to be wrong ...
> 
>> Is there something particular about the 9 files listed above that
>> requires that they be called out separately in debian/copyright?
> 
> ... because you get for example:
> src/core/org/apache/jmeter/images/toolbar$ strings clear.png |grep -i gpl
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/[
> 
> So this does not look like the apache license.
> 
> Maybe there are other icons with different licenses as documented in
> licenses/src/openiconlibrary.txt.

Hello Thorsten,

Thank you for the explanation.  Perhaps we can get some of these checks
integrated into licensecheck (or other tools) so the uploads are cleaner.

tony





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