Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

[Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>]

Il 23/10/2022 04:04, Paul Wise ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 15:59 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>
> > Which would be the best tool(s) to get a good starting debian/copyright
> > and decrease the time it takes to complete and fix it?
> Allegedly scancode is the best option for that, but it isn't in Debian.
> I think decopy/licensecheck are the best ones already in Debian.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools
> https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/
>
> Personally I afterwards manually review each file and check all of the
> details, since the Debian archive admins will be doing that anyway.
> I find that a keyboard-driven file manager like mc works for this.

Thanks for reply, some manual checks can be ok, but when you start 
having difficulties and it takes more time for debian/copyright alone 
than all the rest of the packaging I think it is unpleasant and 
unproductive.

then when the files are thousands or more manually checking each one 
would be impossible as time

> > decopy spotted one file (usr/share/icons/Mint-X/apps/96/miro.svg) with
> > license "CC-BY", I tried a search for found the specific license used
> > but I not found, in mint-theme instead for example about a license doubt
> > I went to look for the origin and I found it and solved it
> > (https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/mint-themes/-/commit/dcf71951df39f326ea9057d39095f7e94926bf19),
> > regarding this file, however, the site mentioned inside no longer exists
> > and therefore I have not found a certain answer.
> All the sites mentioned in that commit work for me:
>
> https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird
> https://shimmerproject.org/

the commit linked about mint-theme was a search I did successfull (as 
example) intead about mint-x-icons was not

> > there are also some other files with "creative common" found inside it
> > with a grep but that was not spotted by decopy and also in these there
> > aren't details on the exact license
> Might be worth filing bugs on decopy about these missing detections.

done, seems that decopy spotted only the one file with:

<!-- License: creative commons attribution -->

and not:

xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";

that with a grep seems in 1872 files

> As Andrew says, best ask upstream about any unclear licenses.
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