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["Erich E. Hoover" <1429974@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hans,

Yes, this would fix the issue (provided that the copyright file gets
updated with the version from upstream).  We (wine staging tree) would
greatly prefer that this package get merged with upstream since upstream
has the lib provided dynamically.  Is there a time-table on this
happening or is there someone we can poke?

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Title:
  Outdated/wrong copyright/license data

Status in nvidia-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The nvidia-settings package has a significant problem with the copyright file.  It is either significantly out of date or plain wrong, neglecting a variety of files that have different licenses from the main binary.  This is most significant in the portion of the package that provides libXNVCtrl, which is licensed under the Expat license (and therefore compatible with LGPL projects).  The current license data implies that it is GPL-only, which would present a problem for LGPL projects.  For reference, the upstream Debian package has this covered:
  http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/n/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings_340.46-2_copyright

  Ideally the libXNVCtrl library would be split into a separate package
  (like it is on Debian), but at the very least the copyright/license
  data should be corrected.

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