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Description of problem: The COPYING file is not the GPL, but a version which has been modified, despite of the stricture at the top, rather than supplemented. It presumably infringes the FSF's copyright.
I think that the changes are in keeping with the spirit of 7a, although, perhaps not the letter. Nevertheless, this is a case where we will defer to the FSF. I'll open a ticket with them.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle. Changing version to '22'. More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22
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I filed this ticket with the FSF back in 2014. Our last correspondance on this matter was in February of 2015, where they stated: This is a concern we care about. While it is unlikely that this particular file will spread too far, we have seen it happen before in which a modified license file ends-up being copied for one reason to another into other projects without knowing that it is a modified version of the GPL. So whenever we see that this has happened, we find it is best to just get the problem fixed as soon as we can. They asked for contact information for the libccp4 upstream, and I provided them all the information I had. This was the last I heard from the FSF on this issue. It is unclear what else we can do here.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle. Changing version to '25'.
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This issue is still valid. Reopening it.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle. Changing version to '28'.
While upstream hasn't done anything to resolve the issue with the modified COPYING (and may no longer be working on this software, given no releases in 3 years), in looking at this again, all of the code is under the LGPLv3, and COPYING.LESSER is not modified. I'm going to close this as NOTABUG.