[Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?

[Simon Josefsson]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> On Tue 2008-09-09 12:01:23 -0400, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> I tried to do some systematic searches, but the debian copyright
>> information tends to be incorrect (not mentioning versions) or difficult
>> to parse.
>
> This is sadly true.  Automatic resolution of this sort of question
> would be much easier if the machine-readable debian/copyright proposal
> was more widely-adopted:
>
>  http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat

I have changed one of my debian packages to use it, and will do the same
for another.  Thanks for the pointer.

> And cups appears to be ambiguous as far as the GPL'ed bits (though the
> LGPL'ed bits are pretty clearly V2-only):
>
> [0 dkg at squeak ~]$ grep -A6 ^INTRODUCTION /usr/share/doc/cups-common/copyright 
> INTRODUCTION
>
> The Common UNIX Printing System(tm), ("CUPS(tm)"), is provided
> under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") and GNU Library
> General Public License ("LGPL"), Version 2, with exceptions for
> Apple operating systems and the OpenSSL toolkit. A copy of the
> exceptions and licenses follow this introduction.
> [0 dkg at squeak ~]$ 
>
> I couldn't come up with an automated way to pull the answers to these
> questions out of debian automatically either :(

Looking at the source code headers in CUPS indicate a somewhat confusing
situation.  At least some of the files definitely just reference version
2 though.

/Simon