1482643 - Thunderbird license change to MPL 2 not reflected in /usr/share/doc/thunderbird files

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[u620176]

Attachment: MPLGZ_TBird.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180704192850

Steps to reproduce:

Now that thunderbird  have switched from the MPLv1/GPL/LGPL tri-license to MPL 2.0, /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/copyright should reflect this. 

Also, /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/MPL.gz should be updated with MPL 2.0 would be included in /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/copyright.

Reported originally in Ubuntu Launchpad bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1028267


Actual results:

/usr/share/doc/thunderbird/copyright is still describing the old licenses.
/usr/share/doc/thunderbird/MPL.gz is still the old license.


Expected results:

/usr/share/doc/thunderbird/copyright file should reflect the change to MPL 2.0.  
/usr/share/doc/thunderbird/MPL.gz should be replaced.

The edits have been made to Firefox. Please make same changes to Thunderbird:
1) replace the /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/copyright file, with the firefox copyright file.
2) remove /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/MPL.gz file 
3) add /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/MPL-1.1.gz file to the directory
4) add /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/MPL-2.0.gz file to the directory

I will attach screen shots of the thunderbird and firefox directories.

Comment 1

[u620176]

Attachment: Updated Firefox directory (for comparison only)

Here is the updated Firefox directory for your reference.
Thanks
G

Comment 2

[u620176]

This is tested on verion 57.0b2 and still a problem.  
Unable to test on versioin 60 - unable to find /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/copyright file for version 60.
Thanks
G

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

As the comments in the launcpad report also say, this is a file coming from the distro packagers, not included upstream. So nothing for us to do here.

Comment 4

[u620176]

Thanks for your help, Magnus and Wayne. I will contact the packagers.
Take care
:)
G