FS#13693 - ftgl package violates the ftgl license by not including the ftgl COPYING file
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Opened by Bryan Ischo (bji) - Saturday, 07 March 2009, 12:03 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 07:48 GMT
Opened by Bryan Ischo (bji) - Saturday, 07 March 2009, 12:03 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 07:48 GMT
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Description:
The ftgl package in extra does not include the copyright notice as required by the license for ftgl. The ftgl license, from the COPYING file in the ftgl source distribution, reads, in part: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." No such copyright notice is included with the ftgl package. I believe that the correct place to put nonstandard licenses is in /usr/share/licenses/{package}. Putting the COPYING file from the ftgl source distribution into this directory would remedy this problem. I have marked the severity as medium as license noncompliance is not something to be shrugged off as low priority. Without license compliance, Arch Linus is violating copyright by distributing ftgl contrary to the license terms it prescribes. Violating copyright isn't cool. Additional info: * package version(s) * config and/or log files etc. Steps to reproduce: |
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In this case, we just need to add the license field. We already provide a LGPL license in /usr/share/licenses/common/
Please note that the ftgl package also lists its license as "None", which is also wrong. It should be listed as "Custom" according to the Arch Packaging Standards documentation.
The package list the license as "None" because there is no licence information in the package metadata. As I said earlier, the package needs to be fixed/updated with the correct license information.