Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

[John Lindgren]

On 12/10/2017 06:12 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> In particular I'm concerned about lines like this from
> d/copyright:
> 
> "po/uk.po" is © 2005 Mykola Lynnyk and is distributed under the terms of the
>  GPL.
> 
> Where the new po/uk.po is GPL-incompatible 2-clause BSD:

The line "Copyright (C) 2005 Mykola Lynnyk <...>" appears to have been
lost accidentally in commit 1a013156d209b, when we switched over to
Transifex.  I'll see about restoring it.

As far as our Git history goes back (to October 2005), uk.po had no
license declaration and was assumed to be under the same license as the
source files it translated (which at the time was GPLv2+). At the time
of the BSD relicense, we took the liberty of assuming that such
translations would automatically switch to the new license along with
the source files they translated.  No one (to my knowledge) has
contacted us in the five years since to clarify that their translations
were intended to be forever GPL-only, but I suppose that to take a more
cautious approach, Debian could still distribute the package as GPL in
total.

> Oh, and if
> everything goes according to plan we'll have a qt variant again
> sometime in 2018 (one src:package will build the gtk variant, cleanup,
> build the qt variant, and then package the two variants separately).

+1 from me!

John