licensing information incorrect in some source files

Bug #1653413 reported by Fabio Valentini
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
AppCenter
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Camera
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Files
Fix Released
High
Jeremy Wootten
Granite
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Greeter
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Maya
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Scratch
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Slingshot
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Accessibility Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Applications Plug
Fix Released
High
Danielle Foré
Switchboard Desktop Plug
Confirmed
High
Unassigned
Switchboard Display Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Mouse & Touchpad Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Notifications Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Parental Controls Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Power Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Printers Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Switchboard Security & Privacy Plug
Fix Released
High
Fernando Alvarenga
Switchboard Sharing Plug
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Wingpanel
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Wingpanel Ayatana Indicator
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Wingpanel Date & Time Indicator
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Wingpanel Power Indicator
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Wingpanel Session Indicator
Fix Committed
High
Danielle Foré
Wingpanel Sound Indicator
Fix Released
High
Danielle Foré

Bug Description

For Example (maya-calendar):

Running licensecheck on the maya-calendar sources reports that some of the files which include licensing information include the wrong FSF address.

 $ licensecheck -r . | awk -F ": " '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr

    163 *No copyright* UNKNOWN
    101 UNKNOWN
     38 GPL (v3 or later)
      6 LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
      4 *No copyright* GENERATED FILE
      4 BSD (2 clause)
      3 *No copyright* GPL (v3 or later)
      2 LGPL (v2.1 or later)

The affected files are:

 $ licensecheck -r . | grep incorrect
  ./core/Backends/Backend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./core/Backends/BackendsManager.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./core/Backends/LocalBackend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./core/Backends/PlacementWidget.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./plugins/CalDAV/CalDAVBackend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./plugins/Google/GoogleBackend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)

Package checkers / linters (for example the compulsory fedora one - rpmlint) complain very verbosely about this.

Related branches

description: updated
Revision history for this message
Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

Unmarking Photos since it has a more specific report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-photos/+bug/1654873

no longer affects: pantheon-photos
Neal Gompa (ngompa13)
tags: added: cross-distro
Neal Gompa (ngompa13)
tags: added: fedora
Changed in switchboard-plug-applications:
assignee: nobody → Daniel Fore (danrabbit)
milestone: none → juno-beta1
status: New → In Progress
RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)
Changed in switchboard-plug-applications:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in switchboard-plug-applications:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in wingpanel-indicator-session:
assignee: nobody → Daniel Fore (danrabbit)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → In Progress
Changed in wingpanel-indicator-sound:
assignee: nobody → Daniel Fore (danrabbit)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → juno-beta1
status: New → In Progress
RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)
Changed in wingpanel-indicator-session:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)
Changed in wingpanel-indicator-sound:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → juno-beta1
status: New → In Progress
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
importance: Low → High
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in switchboard-plug-applications:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in wingpanel-indicator-session:
milestone: none → juno-beta1
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: juno-beta1 → 0.3.2
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in switchboard-plug-security-privacy:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → juno-beta1
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Fernando Alvarenga (ferbarcelona10)
RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)
Changed in switchboard-plug-security-privacy:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in wingpanel-indicator-sound:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in switchboard-plug-security-privacy:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

In Scratch this was handled in https://github.com/elementary/scratch/pull/223

Revision history for this message
Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

In Wingpanel this was handled in https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel/pull/56

Revision history for this message
Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

In the Parental Controls plug this was handled in https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-parental-controls/pull/29

Revision history for this message
Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

For Greeter it was handled here: https://github.com/elementary/greeter/pull/71

Revision history for this message
Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

For Camera it was handled here https://github.com/elementary/camera/pull/40

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