[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#749801: xorriso: incompatible licenses?!

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: xorriso
Version: 1.3.2-1
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: adequate incompatible-licenses

The xorriso's copyright file says:

Files: *
License: GPL-2

But /usr/bin/xorriso is linked to libreadline6, which is GPLv3+. These 
two licenses are not compatible.

But perhaps there's no license incompatibility, just a buggy copyright 
file? I couldn't find any evidence in the upstream code that the license 
is GPLv2-only. On the contrary, upstream COPYRIGHT file reads:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later as 
published by the Free Software Foundation.

So presumably debian/copyright should use this instead:

License: GPL-2+


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xorriso depends on:
ii  libacl1       2.2.52-1
ii  libburn4      1.3.2-1
ii  libc6         2.18-7
ii  libisoburn1   1.3.2-1
ii  libisofs6     1.3.2-1
ii  libjte1       1.19-2
ii  libreadline6  6.3-6
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

-- 
Jakub Wilk