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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.24
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hello,
The description of license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text
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Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive):
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts.
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does not exactly match the FSF template
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html>:
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with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
Texts.
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The FSF template does not use a comma in front of "and".
I have no idea which of the two variants uses correct punctuation, but
the FSF variant should be the official one, shouldn't it?
Trivial patch against git HEAD attached.
cu Andreas
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From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:04:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix punctuation in gfdl text template
Copy license notice from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html
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checks/cruft.desc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/checks/cruft.desc b/checks/cruft.desc
index 51025d4..a235692 100644
--- a/checks/cruft.desc
+++ b/checks/cruft.desc
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ Info: The given source file is licensed under GFDL, but using a
non-official text for the "no invariant sections" part.
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Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive):
- with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
+ with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
Tag: license-problem-nvidia-intellectual
Severity: serious
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Hello,
> The description of license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text
>
> -----
> Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive):
> with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
> Texts.
> -----
>
> does not exactly match the FSF template
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html>:
>
> -----
> with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
> Texts.
> ----
>
> The FSF template does not use a comma in front of "and".
>
> I have no idea which of the two variants uses correct punctuation, but
> the FSF variant should be the official one, shouldn't it?
According to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html (the official license text).
ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:
Copyright (C) YEAR YOUR NAME.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".
See the comma
So you should open a bug against gnu website.
Bastien
PS: this tag is really nitpitting but they are a lot of variant for this kind of text that are more different than a comma.
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