qbs's debian/copyright lists several files in the examples/ folder as
being licensed as CC-BY-NC-4.0. This license does not allow this
content to be used for commercial purposes. This is pretty explicitly
against the DFSG #6

https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

This restriction also applies to the source tarballs even if the files
aren't used in any binary packages. Please remove these files from
your orig tarball. This is made easier with debian/copyright's
Files-Excluded field and appropriate syntax in debian/watch.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

severity 1127583 normal
thanks


On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 5:18:25 AM Central European Standard Time Jeremy

Hi

I just double checked, and this is a bug in the copyright file, the actual
content is nicely licensed:

//  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
//  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

/Sune

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
qbs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1127583@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org> (supplier of updated qbs package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:44:14 +0100
Source: qbs
Architecture: source
Version: 3.1.2-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Closes: 1127583
Changes:
 qbs (3.1.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Define PATH_MAX if not available, to help building on GNU/Hurd;
     patch path_max.diff.
   * Increase the timeout of qtest with QTEST_FUNCTION_TIMEOUT also for alpha,
     and hppa.
   * Backport upstream commit a8a17646b136873132c5fba98ee1bea681a7dcaa to build
     with Qt 6.10; patch upstream_Fix-build-with-Qt-6.10.patch.
   * Fix copyright. (Closes: #1127583)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.3, no changes required.
   * Drop Priority: optional, no more needed since dpkg 1.22.13.
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