• Bug#1110183: libunistring5: Incorrect license in copyright file

    From Walter Lozano@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 31 13:50:01 2025
    Package: libunistring5
    Version: 1.3-2
    Severity: important

    Dear Maintainer,

    I noticed that in git commit [1] the copyright file was updated, changing it from

    diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
    index f7ff1645..2c0152eb 100644
    --- a/debian/copyright
    +++ b/debian/copyright
    @@ -5,7 +5,1255 @@ Source: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/

    Files: *
    Copyright: 1995-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    -License: LGPL-3+ or GPL-2+
    +License: GPL-3+

    This seems to be a mistake since most of the files mention the license as

    It is dual-licensed under "the GNU LGPLv3+ or the GNU GPLv2+".

    It looks like a scanner tool such as scan-copyrights was used to generate the copyright file, which is unable to properly detect the dual license and only picks GPL-3.

    Please check it, thanks in advance.

    [1] https://git.jff.email/cgit/libunistring.git/commit/debian/copyright?id=b4d8f3b5462619b54517aded6f9c605817c27000


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: trixie/sid
    APT prefers oracular-updates
    APT policy: (500, 'oracular-updates'), (500, 'oracular-security'), (500, 'oracular'), (100, 'oracular-backports')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.11.0-29-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads;