[pkg-php-pear] upload a few packages to unstable (kalkun & deps)

[Fab Stz]

Le mercredi 20 décembre 2023, 03:34:08 CET James Valleroy a écrit :
> On 12/5/23 3:13 AM, Fab Stz wrote:
> > Hello James,
> > 
> > Kalkun's license issues were fixed upstream and I updated the Debian
> > package. This should fix the ftpmasters rejection it got a few months
> > ago.
> > 
> > Could you please upload it again to unstable?
> > - https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/kalkun
> 
> There is one set of files where I have a concern about the stated license:
> 
> Files: application/plugins/soap/controllers/Api.php
>         application/plugins/soap/models/Api_model.php
>         application/plugins/soap/views/index.php
>         application/plugins/soap/views/js_remote_access.php
> Copyright: 2010 bullshit <oskar at biglan.at>
> License: GPL
> 
> License: GPL
>   On debian systems, you can find the full license text under
>   /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> 
> The issue is that, although the upstream files say GPL without specifying a
> version, /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL actually contains the GPLv3 license
> (which isn't allowed in this context).
> 
>  From what I can tell, if GPL is used without a specified version, then you
> are allowed to choose any version:
> https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/258008/gpl-no-versi
> on-mentioned
> 
> Do you think we could list these a different way in debian/copyright, to
> avoid referring to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL ?

Hello James,

I think we should leave it as in the source code, hence "GPL". Some other DD 
told me so on another package IIRC.

What do you think about something like this in d/copyright for the "License: 
GPL" section?

License: GPL
 GPL license states the following:
 .
 If the Program does not specify a version number of the license, you may
 choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
 .
 As a consequence, the files are under a license compatible with the project
 using them, which in this case is GPL-2.
 .
 On debian systems, you can find the full license text under
 /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2


Regards
Fab