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Bug#241600: ITP: xmms-skins -- Skins for XMMS



<posted & mailed>

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:46:26PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> 
>> * Package name    : xmms-skins
>>   Version         : 0.3
>>   Upstream Author : Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@colband.com.br>
>> * URL             : http://www.majufran.com.br/xmms-plugins/
Doesn't exist.

>> * License         : GPL
I don't see any explicit licensing notices on most the skins downloaded from
www.xmms.org.

We can't assume that these skins are free software.  For
these to go in 'main', Debian needs licenses which grant everyone explicit 
permission to modify (we might be able to assume that permission to 
redistribute is granted because the authors uploaded them to www.xmms.org or 
whereever, but we can't assume that permission to modify is granted).

You *must* have a DFSG-free license from each copyright holder (which in this 
case means each skin author -- for skins partly 'ripped' from other sources, 
it means the original artwork's author as well); and you must include 
copyright notices from *all* these authors, as well as their licenses, in the 
debian/copyright file.

You can suggest the GPL or the 2-clause BSD license to authors.

Do *not* upload a package to Debian 'main' without checking the licensing 
issues.

>>   Description     : Skins for XMMS
>> 
>> xmms-skins is a debian native package with a collection of XMMS skins,
>> created by the maintainer of this package specifically for Debian with
>> skins found all over the internet (specially www.xmms.org)



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