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Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????



On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:47:15AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:15:44PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > You are missing my point. We[1] got a reject for a documentation PDF
> > without source. So, we contacted upstream who checked the copyright with
> > the company in order to release the source for the documentation. And
> > yes, it's work, painful, whatever and I would have preferred not having
> > to do it.
> 
> Could you please elaborate here?  

Sure, what do you want to know?

Rejection email:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2008-April/003819.html

Upstream tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/fixed-0.7.5.tar.gz?download

Copyright of the PDF when uploaded:

Copyright C 2004 Motorola Inc
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the same conditions as for modified
versions.

The "C" above was a copyright symbol.

	Thomas


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