[R-pkg-team] r-cran-parsetools_0.1.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Andrew,

I intend to package your R package parsetools for Debian GNU Linux.  Our
ftpmasters have found some inconsistencies in the copyright information.
I've found more files R/*.R that are featuring GPL-3+ explicitly while
in some files an explicit statement is missing.  My naive assumption is
that this is just an oversight you possibly want to fix by bringing all
licenses statements in sync - may be by simply adjusting the License field
inside the DESCRIPTION file?

So far for the upstream issues - thanks for providing parsetools as
Free Software in any case.


Hi Scott,

thanks for spotting the issues.  I've adjusted d/copyright for the
moment as specified in the files explicitly and re-uploaded.

BTW, I'm wondering why licensecheck is failing to report GPL-3 here.
Do you have any better version or any more picky tool I could use to
upload better packages in the first place?

Kind regards and thanks again for your thorough checking

      Andreas.


On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 01:00:08AM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately I am going to have to reject this package.  The license
> information in debian/copyright is incorrect.
> 
> debian/copyright:
> 
> Files: *
> Copyright: 2018-2020 Andrew Redd, R Consortium
> License: GPL-2
> 
> inst/examples/example.R - GPL 3+
> R/parent.R - GPL 3+
> 
> Every file I checked is GPL-3+ (I did not check them all - you need to do
> that).
> 
> Additionally, two files have copyright holders that are not listed:
> 
> R/pd_if.R:# Copyright: 2017 University of Utah
> R/pd_function.R:# Copyright: 2017 University of Utah
> 
> Andrew Redd is listed at the Author, but not the copyright holder.  This needs
> to be corrected too.
> 
> I did not review further than that.
> 
> Scott K
> 
> 
> 
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