Bug#353814: kdelibs-bin: meinproc is relicensing my code
Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:3.5.1-2
Severity: serious
Hi,
I have a KDE application whose documentation is licensed under the GPL.
In particular, its index.docbook contains the line:
<legalnotice>&underGPL;</legalnotice>
When I build the application and meinproc is run over the docbook files,
it generates an HTML index that looks like:
Title (large bold heading)
Author
Revision number
Copyright notice
Legal Notice
Abstract ...
In past versions of KDE, the legal notice was actually a short blurb
stating which license was used. Now it is simply a hyperlink with the
two words "Legal Notice".
So: To find out the license, you must click on the "Legal Notice"
hyperlink, and --- it sends you to help:/common/fdl-notice.html, which
states that the documentation is licensed under the GFDL version 1.1 or
later.
For the obvious reasons, I most certainly do _not_ want my documentation
licensed under the GFDL. It is GPLed, as stated in index.docbook, and
the documentation that appears in the help centre should not be telling
users something different.
I am marking this bug as serious, since meinproc is used to generate all
of the KDE help centre documentation, and so users are being presented
with license information that is incorrect.
As for the cause: I'm not too familiar with meinproc internals, but I
suspect the culprit is /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/kde-chunk.xsl.
Around lines 90--100 it does look rather like the fdl-notice is being
dropped into the documentation regardless of what actually appears inside
the <legalnotice> tag.
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kdelibs-bin depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.1-2 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.7-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.3.6-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-15 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-9 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.2-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-3 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii menu-xdg 0.2.2 freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii perl 5.8.8-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii python 2.3.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kdelibs-bin recommends:
ii perl-suid 5.8.8-2 Runs setuid Perl scripts
-- no debconf information
Reply to: