Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2016-07-21 16:19:18) > Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org> writes: >> can you please take care of all those lintian warnings like: >> W: fontforge source: file-without-copyright-information ... > > There is no copyright on those files. So I've asked upstream to > clarify here ¹ and a related pull request is here ². > > Earlier we asked upstream about the copyright related issue ³ and Dave > Crossland from upstream mentioned that copyright for these files can > be collectively referenced as "The Fontforge Authors", I could have > added a wild card catch all with this information but that does not > feel right because its job of author to assign copyright and not of > the packager. > > So in short the issue is already notified to upstream and all these > files are collectively licensed as GPL-3 and copyrighted collectively > as "The Fontforge Authors". What Thorsten/ftp-masters request is to "take care of lintian warnings", not specifically that those files be treated as copyright-protected. Those lintian warnings are (roughly) that files distributed doesn't match files covered in debian/copyright. One way to "take care of it" is to override lintian. Another (better, IMO) approach is to list the files in debian/copyright - i.e. add one or more sections covering group(s) of files without copyright and licensing, with comments on why it is deemed legally ok for us to distribute anyway. > Do the FTP Master still thinks its not correct to upload this package > till all copyrights are in place?.. (I'm not sure when that will > happen either). I believe in any case when a package is rejected it needs re-uploading. Instead of waiting for a response for ftpmaster (which in my experience can potentially take a while) I suggest simply go ahead and address their request as I interpret it above, and (if ftpmaster hasn't replied by then, instructing differently) simply upload that and see if they approve it. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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