Re: Inclusion of PDF with CC Attr 3.0 license
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> [Please, Cc to me, since I am not subscribed to debian-legal.]
Done.
> I am considering to package Divand [1], an add-on package for Octave. The
> current upstream tarball [2] contains a PDF file [3] with the following
> copyright and licensing conditions: "© Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0
> License."
>
> Would it be okay to include this file in the Debian package?
You can find answers to this question in the FTP-master reject FAQ:
https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
> Source missing:
>
> Your package contains files that need source but do not have it.
> These include PDF and PS files in the documentation, or auto-generated files.
>
> Generated files
> Your package contains generated files (such as compressed .js libraries) without
> corresponding original form. They're not considered as the preferred form of
> modification, so you will either have to provide corresponding original form,
> or remove them from your tarball, eventually depending on an already
> available packages to provide missing features.
Based on the other replies you got, the PDF is clearly a generated,
sourceless file that the ftp-masters would reject having in Debian.
Personally, I would suggest talking to the author of the paper to
provide their sources and other data publicly.
--
bye,
pabs
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