On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:54:14 -0400 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote: > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 > > Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote: > > > >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files > >> that are installed by the generated .deb. > >> > >> Does that mean that files that are *generated* during execution of > >> debian/rules (e.g. rendered documentation) do not need to be included in > >> the copyright file? > > > > Auto-generated files can only have the copyright of whatever creative > > content is provided by a human writer (not the copyright of the tools > > used in generation). The documentation presumably comes from some kind > > of source files contained in the source package and presents that same > > data in a different format. > > Yes, but it also contains images, style sheets and java script libraries > from the rendering tool (Sphinx). So those retain whatever copyright relates to those from the Sphinx package and have nothing to do with the copyright of your package. > > The copyright of the original data is unaffected (assuming it complies > > with DFSG), the generated content is basically the distribution of a > > modified form of the source itself and hence under the same licence as > > the source itself. > > > > Declaring the copyright of the source covers any reformatting of the > > source which occurs during the building/packaging/distribution > > process. > > Even in this case? I don't see that this case is any different to any of my own packages which use tools like doxygen to generate documentation - including adding images, stylesheets and (optionally) javascript - from the comments in the source code. The generated documentation retains my copyright (alongside other upstream authors) because the content comes directly from the copyrighted source code. Simple. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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