Bug#751511: xfslibs-dev: Incorrect licensing information in debian/copyright

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun Jul 13 03:33:36 CDT 2014


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 06:24:14PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 xfslibs-dev
> 
> On Vi, 13 iun 14, 19:55:34, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> > Source: xfslibs-dev
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 4.5
> > 
> > It looks like the xfslibs-dev package source files are licensed under LGPL
> > v2.1, however the debian/copyright file indicates that only the libhandle
> > package is under LGPL and that the rest of the package is licensed under GPL.

All the headers in xfslibs-dev are licensed under the LGPL.  The man
pages don't have specific licensing information in the source file nad
thus default to GPL.



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