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[Sebastian Lackner <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Even though it was only shortly mentioned, and is not the main subject
of this bug: It would also be nice if the second issue, providing a
dynamically linked library similar to Debian, could be resolved (maybe
even in the same step when merging with the changes from the Debian
package).

It would have a lot of advantages for the Wine feature we're working on
right now when we could just dynamically load the library. On Debian
this already works very well and avoids increasing the package size and
also possible license issues.

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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  Outdated/wrong copyright/license data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  It is either significantly out of date or plain wrong, neglecting a variety of files that have different licenses from the main binary.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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