DFSG NEW Queue

DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team

Review: metalog 20251216~snapshot-1

New Package Report

.changes
Architectureamd64 source
Distributionunstable
DateFri, 19 Dec 2025 13:39:20 +0100
Sourcemetalog
Version20251216~snapshot-1
Changed-ByAntoine Le Gonidec
Changelog
metalog (20251216~snapshot-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release. (Closes: #1109152)
.dsc
Sectionadmin
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listmetalog deb admin optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: metalog
Upstream-Contact: Michael Kress <m-kress@m-kress.de>
Source: https://github.com/hvisage/metalog

Files: *
Copyright:
 Laurent Wandrebeck <wandre.l@free.fr>
 Leo Lipelis <aeoo@gentoo.org>
 Hendrik Visage <hvisage@users.sourceforge.net>
 Frank DENIS "Jedi/Sector One" <j@pureftpd.org>
 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
 Jovan Lanik <jox969@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2

Files: INSTALL
Copyright:
 1994-1996, 1999-2002, 2004-2017, 2020-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: FSFAP

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
 Antoine Le Gonidec <vv221@debian.org>
 Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>
License: GPL-2

License: GPL-2
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
 . 
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
 more details.
 . 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Comment: 
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

License: FSFAP
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
 notice and this notice are preserved.  This file is offered as-is,
 without warranty of any kind.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 28 days ago, started 28 days ago, completed 28 days ago.

Final Comment

It looks like "Lukas Ruf" is mentioned as the copyright holder of some code in
README, though that code itself looks trivial and - to my mind - uncopyrightable,
so I have accepted this package.

Might be good if you could talk to the upstream about that copyright notice and
whether Lukas should be credited in debian/copyright.

Public Notes

28 days ago ● public

Search for authors

Command: ag -i 'copyright .* (by|rights|reserved)[. ]' | sed -e 's/^.*Copyright //i' -e 's/20[0-9][0-9][, -]*//g' -e 's/[., ]*ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.*$//i' | sort -i | uniq -i
Exit code: 0

(c) by Lukas Ruf (lukas.ruf@lpr.ch),

Back to Dashboard | View all reviews for this package