Dear Maintainer,

Pbzip2's ./debian/copyright file incorrectly states that pbzip2 is licensed under BSD-4-Clause.

The actual license is found in ./COPYING. Although this license also has 4 numbered clauses,
it is not BSD-4-Clause but a variant of the bzip2-1.0.6 license with SPDX identifier "bzip2-1.0.6", see
<https://spdx.org/licenses/bzip2-1.0.6.html>.

./Debian/copyright additionally states that files ./Debian/* are BSD-4-Clause.  Perhaps the
maintainers could be convinced to re-license their changes under "pbzip2-1.1.13", as
BSD-4-Clause has an acknowledgement obligation onerous in commercial
settings.

Please find below a corrected ./debian/copyright:

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pbzip2, 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 1145668@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> (supplier of updated pbzip2 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:30:05 +0200
Source: pbzip2
Architecture: source
Version: 1.1.13-1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: William Grzybowski <william@grzy.org>
Changed-By: Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org>
Closes: 1145668
Changes:
 pbzip2 (1.1.13-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Mechtilde ]
   * Non-maintainer upload
   * [9d0dc6f] Added d/dpb.conf to work with debian-package-scripts
   * [066421f] Improved d/copyright to use the recent license as mentioned
      in COPYING (Closes: #1145668)
   * [560252b] Removed priority as optional because it is default now
   * [d2df35d] Bumped standard version - no changes needed
   * [e7824d5] Bumped compat version
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