[R-pkg-team] r-cran-venndiagram_1.6.20-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Thorsten Alteholz]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I agree with Steffen.  The files say:
>
>   GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any later version)
>   or "something else"
>
> which is no conflict to GPL-2.

according to Debian policy 4.5: "This file [debian/coypright] is usually 
required to contain a verbatim copy of the package’s copyright information"
At this point it is not the task of the maintainer to decide what license 
the user of the software has to choose.
In your cite you also forgot to mention the Artistic license.

> Do we really need to contact upstream about this since ...

You don't have to, but you have to put the complete copyright information 
into your debian/copyright. Talking to upstream could have made things 
easier.

> ... as far as I
> understood CRAN the License mentioned in DESCRIPTION is the valid
> license statement.

No, that is not true. The license mentioned in individual files always has 
the precedence over the global license tag.

   Thorsten


>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
>> On 15.01.19 16:00, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>>> HI Steffen,
>>>
>>> while DESCRIPTION says GPL-2, the file headers say Perl (=GPL-1+ or Artistic-1).
>>> Can you please clarify with upstream what he wants?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>   Thorsten
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ===
>>>
>>> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
>>> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
>>> concerns.
>>>
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