Re: Help on a couple of packages

[Barry deFreese <bdefreese@verizon.net>]

Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org> wrote:
>
>   
> > Pegsolitaire.  I uploaded this one a while ago but it was rejected because
> > the documentation is GFDL.  I'm not sure I understand the issue well enough
> > to know if it contains the invariant section or whatever.
> >     
>
> The copyright file says this:
>
> help/pegsolitaire.xml:
> License text taken from help/legal.xml:
>
>     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
>     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
>     License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published
>     by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections,
>     no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
>
>     This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals
>     distributed under the GFDL.  If you want to distribute this
>     manual separately from the collection, you can do so by
>     adding a copy of the license to the manual, as described in
>     section 6 of the license.
>
>   On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Free
>   Documentation License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL'.
>
> That looks free according the GFDL vote (no non-modifiable sections -
> invariant sections and front/back cover texts), can you post the
> ftp-master's rejection email?
>
>   
Paul,

Thanks for responding.  Apparently I'm an idiot (well we all knew that 
didn't we? :) )  I just forgot to put it in debian/copyright apparently:

rejected - your package is using the GFDL license at least for parts
in its help/ subdirectory. You need to mention that in your debian/copyright
and you also need to check if the usage of GFDL it does is ok
with the vote we had on it, see
http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001


I just wasn't sure about the invariant thing but you cleared that up, thanks!


> > asc:  I was holding off on uploading this for libparagui-1.1 but then we
> > realized that is uses it's own modified copy of libparagui (as well as sdlmm
> > and sdlsound).  I have been trying to contact upstream to inquire about it
> > but it appears that they predominantly speak German so I'm not having much
> > luck.  They have an IRC channel #asc-pbp on Quakenet.
> >     
>
> /me monolingual gringo, sorry
>
> Maybe remove it from the archive until upstream sort out the embedded
> code copies?
>
>   
I guess that makes sense, or I will at least file a serious bug and ask 
for removal from testing to see if I can get this resolved fairly quickly.

Thanks again!

Barry