[DRE-maint] Bug#1027449: d/copyright is wrong

[Paul Tagliamonte]

Package: ruby-dbm
Severity: serious
User: paultag at debian.org
Usertags: ftp
X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org
thanks

I've filed the bug since I wasn't sure if my email made it through due
to SMTP issues. Since I didn't see anything in git or any other acks,
I'll file the bug to help with tracking the issue.

I've marked this package for ACCEPT last night.

The debian/coypright file describes source files, not binaries. It looks
like ruby-dbm's copyright file added GPL-3+ because of the GDBM
implementation we link to, which is a welcome degree of diligence I do
appreciate, but it may change without the involvement of this source
package (if the implementation were to change, or how a downstream
changes the way the deb is built). If we had to list all the licensing
information of all our build-deps / links, things would get very messy
indeed! I'd expect someone to look through the dependency tree iff they
need to determine the binary distribution terms.

  paultag (on behalf of the ftpteam)
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