Bug#661831: RFS: texi2html/5.0-1 -- Convert Texinfo files to HTML
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:59:26PM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2012 09:58:58 Bart Martens wrote:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
> >
> > | Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
> > | information and distribution license in the file
> > | /usr/share/doc/package/copyright.
I understand "verbatim" as "using the same words".
> >
> > The copyright information and distribution license I find in
> > test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/Linking-rule.html is :
> >
> > | Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Alain Lahellec
> > |
> > | Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Patrice Dumas
> > |
> > | Copyright (C) 2004, Ste'phane Hallegatte
These copyright notices are the "copyright information" meant in debian-policy.
> > |
> > | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
> > | under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
> > | any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
> > | Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover text and with no Back-Cover Text.
> > | A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
> > | Documentation License."
This text plus the text in
test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html are the
"distribution license" meant in debian-policy.
> >
> > The related information I find in your debian/copyright file is :
> >
> > | Upstream Authors:
> > | test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/*.html, test/manuals/res_info/mini_ker/*.html
> > | test/manuals/res/mini_ker/*.html:
> > | Alain Lahellec, Patrice Dumas, Ste'phane Hallegatte
The terms "author" and "copyright holder" are different terms with different
meanings.
> > | Copyright:
> > | test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/*.html, test/manuals/res_info/mini_ker/*.html
> > | test/manuals/res/mini_ker/*.html are licensed under the GPL-1+, wich in debian
> > | system can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1.
The terms "copyright" and "license" are different terms with different meanings
as well.
>
> I have updated the license to GFDL, but since the version 1.1 is not in debian
> common-licenses directory
If the license text is not in /usr/share/common-licenses/ then you must include
it in debian/copyright.
> I'm using for copyright information:
>
> test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/*.html, test/manuals/res_info/mini_ker/*.html
> test/manuals/res/mini_ker/*.html are licensed under the GFDL-1.1+, we do
> not have a copy of the GFDL 1.1, but you can find a copy of the GFDL 1.3
> in /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL
Things like "no Front-Cover text" are essential for this license.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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